1987 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Specialization, Search Costs, and the Degree of Resource Utilization
Author : Melvin W. Reder
Published in: Arrow and the Ascent of Modern Economic Theory
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In most contexts, an economy’s rate of output is said to be determined by its resource endowment, technology, tastes, the distribution of resource ownership, and so on. Although most items on such a list occasion no disagreement, there is one prominent exception: to suggest that the degree to which productive resources are utilized materially influences an economy’s level of output will immediately provoke a dispute with those who consider that departures from full utilization are transitory or even illusory.