productive function
1Productive and unproductive labour — were concepts used in classical political economy mainly in the 18th and 19th century, which survive today to some extent in modern management discussions, economic sociology and Marxist or Marxian economic analysis. The concepts strongly… …
2Productive forces — Productive forces, productive powers or forces of production [in German, Produktivkräfte ] is a central concept in Marxism and historical materialism. In Karl Marx and Frederick Engels s own critique of political economy, it refers to the… …
3Productive nanosystems — Part of a series of articles on Molecular Nanotechnology …
4Creative and productive sets — In computability theory, productive sets and creative sets are types of sets of natural numbers that have important applications in mathematical logic. They are a standard topic in mathematical logic textbooks such as Soare (1987) and Rogers… …
5production function — Equation that expresses the relationship between the quantities of productive factors (such as labour and capital) used and the amount of product obtained. It states the amount of product that can be obtained from every combination of factors,… …
6Production function — Graph of Total, Average, and Marginal Product In microeconomics and macroeconomics, a production function is a function that specifies the output of a firm, an industry, or an entire economy for all combinations of inputs. This function is an… …
7total productive management — TPM An approach to management that empowers the employees operating a piece of equipment to take responsibility for a wide range of routine maintenance tasks, traditionally carried out by a separate engineering function, and to develop a… …
8Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …
9Dramatis personæ — For the poetry collection, see Dramatis Personae. Dramatis Personae, Leo, the Royal Cadet Opera based on Royal Military College of Canada Dramatis personæ (Latin: persons or characters of the drama ) is a phrase used to refer collectively, in the …
10HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… …
