ANALYTICAL TOOLS IN PRODUCTION ECONOMICS

Maximum principles in analytical economics.

The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics. Indeed, it is only in the last third of the century, within my own lifetime as a scholar, that economic theory has had many pretensions to being itself useful to the practical businessman or bureaucrat. I seem to recall that a great economist of the last g...

Meta-Analytical Studies in Transport Economics

Analytical tools for cell research.

The first publication on the subject of this special issue appeared in 1926 [1]. This report described the analysis of halides in ∼1 mL of sap taken from Nitella plant cells. While useful for giant plant cells, the technologies available at that time were not adequate for investigating non-plant cells, including mammalian cells. It was not until 1952, when immortal cell lines became available, ...

Analytical Tools for Natural Algorithms

We introduce an analytical tool to study the convergence of bidirectional multiagent agreement systems and use it to sharpen the analysis of various natural algorithms, including flocking, opinion consensus, and synchronization systems. We also improve classic bounds about colored random walks and discuss the usefulness of algorithmic proofs.

Production economics : Worthwhile investment ?

89 Agricultural production economics research is examined within a broad framework of scientific development and utilization. Recent findings in selected areas of the subdiscipline are examined and opportunities for further fruitful inquiry are identified. A few 'stylized facts' emerge from recent work and suggest the need for much careful hypothesis testing, model exploration, and empirical se...