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The Technical Optimum Law When Considering Partial Variation of a Factor or a Group of Factors

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In the preceding chapter we have dealt with various methods of describing a continuous production law, but we have given no detailed account of the shape it actually possesses. This is the question we shall now deal with.

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Frisch, R. (1965). The Technical Optimum Law When Considering Partial Variation of a Factor or a Group of Factors. In: Theory of Production. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6161-1_6

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