Nock, Richard; Magdalou, Brice; Sanz, Nicolas; Briys, Eric - arXiv.org - 2009
More than thirty years ago, Charnes, Cooper and Schinnar (1976) established an enlightening contact between economic production functions (EPFs) -- a cornerstone of neoclassical economics -- and information theory, showing how a generalization of the Cobb-Douglas production function encodes...