Titlebook: Economic Information, Decision, and Prediction; Selected Essays: Vol Jacob Marshak Book 1974 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holla

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Optimal Inventory Policy (1951) advance. This is followed by the study of uncertainty models — a static and a dynamic one — in which the demand flow is a random variable with a known probability distribution. The best maximum stock and the best reordering point are determined as functions of the demand distribution, the cost of m

Nonconformist

Towards an Economic Theory of Organization and Information (1954)that, to a layman, economics must appear .. Both men said, in effect, that their respective disciplines formalized certain concepts and propositions of pre-scientific practice. Surely this did not lead them to think that their disciplines were useless. In fact, both disciplines have been fairly succ

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Remarks on the Economics of Information (1959)e relations between these quantities are not always made clear. Perhaps an attempt at clarification is in order. Though for some listeners it will elaborate the obvious, the attempt seems to be justified by the existing state of discussion..

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Theory of an Efficient Several Person Firm (1960)is efficient in the special sense that he chooses plans maximizing his profit. More recent studies deal with a firm that is led by one or more persons. Each of them decides on the basis of partial information; and the decision may or may not be efficient.

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Problems in Information Economics (1964)l theory of the firm, a household, or a government agency considers a single decider with fixed tastes, beliefs, and resources. It is concerned with the choice of an optimal information system under those fixed conditions. An information system may be a simple instrument for collecting observations

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Economic Planning and the Cost of Thinking (1966)ell-considered view, and allowing for the cost of making the decision, its results will be, on the average, not worse than those of any other available action. The set of available actions is called his ‘resources’. Economic planning is, in this sense, concerned with the ‘best use of resources’.

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