自然・経済・技術
スポンサーリンク
概要
- 論文の詳細を見る
Althoug this age is characterized by rapid thechnological progress, economists have been slow to extend the theory of the firm to this phenomenon.Technological progress is evidenced by firms that produce new or improved goods or produce goods products at a lower cost.The purpose of this paper is to construct a theory of technological progress in quality.The concept of quality is one of the most elusive in economic literature.A premise of the model studied here is that commodities are valuable because they possess qualities which consumers desire.This assumption makes it possible to specify the model by describing the amount of a desirable quality it possesses.This assumption also makes it possible to capture the observed fact that the production function shifts with a high quality product.Our version of the right-hand diagram shows that the production function always does not shift toward the point of origin, in the case of qualitative progress.It would seem the way out of this difficulty is to propose a model with the total cost function.In this paper, we should point out that an economy in the process of rapid qualitative progress is controlled by the rules of nature.
- 社会・経済システム学会の論文
- 1989-10-25