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Recently a special phenomenon in the theory of the firm, originally describes by Hicks in Value and Capital, has become the subject of an intense discussion.1 The phenomenon was originally termed regressivity, but has recently been re-baptized inferiority. As a matter of fact, it is completely analogous to inferiority of goods in the theory of consumer behaviour.
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Puu, T. (1997). Some Comments on “Inferior” (Regressive) Inputs. In: Andersson, Å.E., Beckmann, M.J., Löfgren, KG., Stenberg, M.A.A. (eds) Economics of Space and Time. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60877-3_3
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