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The Cobb—Douglas or the Wicksell function?

Carl-Axel Olsson

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Some form of production function for empirical measurement has become more and more common during recent decades to obtain increased knowledge about the production process in an industry or an industrial sector. The Cobb-Douglas function is very useful in this connexion. Its original form had the following appearance

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Some form of production function for empirical measurement has become more and more common during recent decades to obtain increased knowledge about the production process in an industry or an industrial sector. The Cobb-Douglas function is very useful in this connexion. Its original form had the following appearance

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Some form of production function for empirical measurement has become more and more common during recent decades to obtain increased knowledge about the production process in an industry or an industrial sector. The Cobb-Douglas function is very useful in this connexion. Its original form had the following appearance

Key concepts: Cobb–Douglas production function, CobB, Production (economics), Function (biology), Economics, Classical economics, Mathematical economics, Microeconomics

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