The price-iso return locus for a regulated multiproduct firm shows all price vectors giving the rate of return permitted by regulation. The locus for any two products is shown to have both negatively and positively sloping segments. A price vector on a positively sloped segment is socially...

Nous rendons hommage aux contributions d’Anne P. Carter à l’analyse économique. Les modèles économiques standards, y compris les modèles input-output, considèrent la technologie comme donnée et ne s’interrogent pas sur la coexistence de différentes structures technologiques...

The standard measure of productivity growth is the Solow residual.Its evaluation requires data on factor input shares or prices.Since these prices are presumed to match factor productivities, the standard procedure amounts to accepting at face value what is supposed to be measured.In this paper...

Neoclassical economists argue that competition promotes efficiency.They consider technology as given though.In the long run technological progress is an important determinant of the level of welfare and Schumpeter argued that monopoly rents help entrepreneurs to capture the gains of R&D and...