Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Firms and
Production
Topics
• The Ownership and Management of Firms.
• Production.
• Returns to Scale.
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What Owners Want? (cont.)
Production
Inputs Function Output
(L, K) q = f(L, K) q
• Formally,
q = f(L, K)
q
MPL
L
q
APL
L
Relationships
90 B
with Variable 56 A
Labor
Diminishing Marginal 0 4 6 11
L, Workers per day
Returns sets in! (b)
a
APL, MPL
20
b
15
Average product, APL
c
0 4 6 11
q = f (L, K).
6 a
b
3
e c f
2
q = 35
d
1 q = 24
q = 14
change in capital K
MRTS
change in labor L
Slope of Isoquant!
a
16
K = –6
b
10
L = 1
–3
1 c
7
–2 1 d
5 e
4 –1
1 q = 10
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
L, Workers per d ay
q = ALK