Consider an economy with an endowment of L = 60 units of labor. The production functions are X = 4Lx and Y = 1.5Ly, where X and Y are consumption goods and Lx and Ly indicate how labor is allocated. If the total labor endowment is equally divided towards producing goods X and Y, then the resulting out is (X, Y) =

Consider an economy with an endowment of L = 60 units of labor. The production functions are X = 4Lx and Y = 1.5Ly, where X and Y are consumption goods and Lx and Ly indicate how labor is allocated. If the total labor endowment is equally divided towards producing goods X and Y, then the resulting out is (X, Y) =

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Chapter9: Production Functions

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