Author: Murray F. Foss
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Changing Utilization of Fixed Capital
Author: Murray F. Foss
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Work Patterns and Capital Utilisation
Author: D. Anxo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401736944
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Edmond Malinvaud This book provides a most welcome survey of what statisticians and economists know about an aspect of production that is difficult to precisely characterize but matters a lot for both its importance on economic performance and its social implications. That such a survey is timely cannot be overemphasized; the point is well argued in the introduction to the book, which shows how discussions of the last decades stressed the importance of capital operating time as an economic variable in a series of distinct but interrelated topics, from growth theory to employment policies. Nowadays still more than ever in the past, production not only requires capital as well as labour but also depends on varied and complex forms of work organization, which tie more or less closely to one another the uses of the two main factors. In industry and services labour needs many pieces of capital for efficient production, some operating permanently others assisting when needed. Many, even among the most modem equipments, cannot well function without constant guidance or control by human labour. The cost of interrupting some industrial processes is so high as to impose continuous operation. The timing for the provision of many services has to be patterned in accordance with the rhythms of activities or requirements of those demanding these services, and so on. This interplay is so complex that its particularities were, and still are most often, fully neglected in statistical information and in economic analysis.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401736944
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Edmond Malinvaud This book provides a most welcome survey of what statisticians and economists know about an aspect of production that is difficult to precisely characterize but matters a lot for both its importance on economic performance and its social implications. That such a survey is timely cannot be overemphasized; the point is well argued in the introduction to the book, which shows how discussions of the last decades stressed the importance of capital operating time as an economic variable in a series of distinct but interrelated topics, from growth theory to employment policies. Nowadays still more than ever in the past, production not only requires capital as well as labour but also depends on varied and complex forms of work organization, which tie more or less closely to one another the uses of the two main factors. In industry and services labour needs many pieces of capital for efficient production, some operating permanently others assisting when needed. Many, even among the most modem equipments, cannot well function without constant guidance or control by human labour. The cost of interrupting some industrial processes is so high as to impose continuous operation. The timing for the provision of many services has to be patterned in accordance with the rhythms of activities or requirements of those demanding these services, and so on. This interplay is so complex that its particularities were, and still are most often, fully neglected in statistical information and in economic analysis.
Proceedings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Shiftwork, Capital Hours and Productivity Change
Author: Murray F. Foss
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461562015
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This volume brings together and expands on a body of research that I began in the early 1960s and have continued up to the present. It deals mainly with shiftwork-work that is performed during other than normal daytime hours. Shiftwork is a characteristic of economic life in the United States and abroad that has increased in importance over the years; according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, one out of five full-time and part-time employees in the United States works on shifts. My interest in this field concerns fixed capital, specifically, changes in weekly hours worked by capital over long periods of time, and the signifi cance of those changes in the measurement oflong-run productivity change. In studies of growth, the measurement of capital input-by capital stocks or the services yielded by those stocks-typically makes no allowance for the changing hours worked by capital. Capital services are assumed to be propor tional to the stocks. Consequently, in analyses of output growth in a growth accounting framework, the effect of longer capital hours is a component of multifactor or total factor productivity growth.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461562015
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This volume brings together and expands on a body of research that I began in the early 1960s and have continued up to the present. It deals mainly with shiftwork-work that is performed during other than normal daytime hours. Shiftwork is a characteristic of economic life in the United States and abroad that has increased in importance over the years; according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, one out of five full-time and part-time employees in the United States works on shifts. My interest in this field concerns fixed capital, specifically, changes in weekly hours worked by capital over long periods of time, and the signifi cance of those changes in the measurement oflong-run productivity change. In studies of growth, the measurement of capital input-by capital stocks or the services yielded by those stocks-typically makes no allowance for the changing hours worked by capital. Capital services are assumed to be propor tional to the stocks. Consequently, in analyses of output growth in a growth accounting framework, the effect of longer capital hours is a component of multifactor or total factor productivity growth.
The Economic Theory of Structure and Change
Author: Mauro Baranzini
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521345163
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This wide-ranging 1991 inquiry into the general field of structural economic analysis provides a thorough appraisal of the method of economic dynamics.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521345163
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This wide-ranging 1991 inquiry into the general field of structural economic analysis provides a thorough appraisal of the method of economic dynamics.
Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Productivity, a Selected, Annotated Bibliography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Monthly Labor Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
The Golden Age Illusion
Author: Michael John Webber
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 9780898625738
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
What happened to the so-called "golden age" of the postwar boom? Unprecedented rates of economic growth, profitability, and wage increases during the 1950s and 60s have given way to a global capitalist economy in disarray. Reassessing common interpretations of postwar economic history and geography, this book focuses on the evolution of the global economy from the 1950s to the present. Based on extensive research, the book assesses histories of growth, profitability, and technological change in core industrial economies (Japan and the USA), raw material dependent economies (Australia and Canada), and several newly industrializing countries (Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan). The authors build on standard models of economic change to incorporate new developments in regional dynamics: they use nonlinear, nonequilibrium, and evolutionary arguments to frame discussions of profit rates, technological change, and interregional capital flows.
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 9780898625738
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
What happened to the so-called "golden age" of the postwar boom? Unprecedented rates of economic growth, profitability, and wage increases during the 1950s and 60s have given way to a global capitalist economy in disarray. Reassessing common interpretations of postwar economic history and geography, this book focuses on the evolution of the global economy from the 1950s to the present. Based on extensive research, the book assesses histories of growth, profitability, and technological change in core industrial economies (Japan and the USA), raw material dependent economies (Australia and Canada), and several newly industrializing countries (Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan). The authors build on standard models of economic change to incorporate new developments in regional dynamics: they use nonlinear, nonequilibrium, and evolutionary arguments to frame discussions of profit rates, technological change, and interregional capital flows.
Keynes, Investment Theory and the Economic Slowdown
Author: Michael Perelman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349199400
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book integrates Keynes' observations about the q-theory into a coherent theory of replacement investment. It demonstrates why, in the absence of a significant post-war depression, business was relieved of the need to replace obsolete capital goods, leading to a period of prolonged stagnation.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349199400
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book integrates Keynes' observations about the q-theory into a coherent theory of replacement investment. It demonstrates why, in the absence of a significant post-war depression, business was relieved of the need to replace obsolete capital goods, leading to a period of prolonged stagnation.