The complex conditions and realities of the production processes of the mining industry require equally complex and highly developed theoretical-abstract instruments for their scientific investigation and research. One of these instruments could be identified in the production function of type B...

Feldstein (1996, 1974) reported that Social Security in the U.S.A. reduced personal saving (“saving”) in 1992 (1971) by $416 ($61) billion. I reestimate his life-cycle consumption specification using data from the latest NIPA revision, correct his calculations, and find that the implied...