First-Order Taylor Series Approximations and Cost Functions

DOI10.2307/3440015MaRDI QIDQ3496121zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas M. Mitchell

Publication date 1990

Published in Scandinavian Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/3440015

zbMATH Keywords

cost functionfirst-order Taylor series approximationhomogeneous Cobb-Douglas production function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Utility theory (91B16) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58)

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• On second-order Taylor's-series approximation and linear homogeneity

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