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This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers and efficiency measurement. The authors construct a variety of production frontiers, and by measuring distances to them are able to develop a model of efficient producer behaviour and a taxonomy of possible types of departure from efficiency in various environments. Linear programming is used as an analytical and computational technique in order to accomplish this. The approach developed is then applied to modelling producer behaviour. By focusing on the empirical relevance of production frontiers and distances to them, and applying linear programming techniques to artificial data to illustrate the type of information they can generate, this book provides a unique study in applied production analysis. It will be of interest to scholars and students of economics and operations research, and analysts in business and government.

Production possibility curve. --- Industrial efficiency. --- Efficience dans l'industrie. --- Economic production --- Production (Economic theory) --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Efficiency, Industrial --- Industrial management --- Production frontier --- Transformation curve --- THEORIE ECONOMIQUE --- EFFICACITE PRODUCTIVE --- THEORIE DE LA PRODUCTION