Public service facilities: optimal production and factor utilisation
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Whitacre, Robert James (1975) Public service facilities: optimal production and factor utilisation. Working paper no. 249, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobihttp://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/1132
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Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
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Optimality conditions are derived for organizations operating under socialistic principles. The analysis includes the possibilities of advertising, joint factors of production, and demand interdependence for the spectrum of facilities provided in the public service. Operational aspects of a public versus a profit maximizing enterprise are contrasted and the difficulties in attaining efficiency of operation examined.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi