First-Order Taylor Series Approximations and Cost Functions

DOI10.2307/3440015zbMATH Open0711.90011OpenAlexW1500962312MaRDI QIDQ3496121FDOQ3496121

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

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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)

Cited In (1)

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

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