Talk:Production theory

General Improvements

"Isoquants" section talks about Figure 1 which I could not locate. I think there is need for a figure and explanation of the figure. Also removal of the Figure 1. While we are here, how about separating out section for "Returns to a factor" which is actually covered in last two paragraphs of "Total, average, and marginal product". --rj 14:51, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

specific definitions

Neither the Input or Output pages linked in the first paragraph have specific definitions in relation to microeconomics (both links have senses under equity theory but its not stated anywhere that this is a topic of microeconomics). Should the relationship be revised or the links removed? 210.211.116.15 03:45, 29 December 2005 (UTC)yioioiioy

Major problems with major revision

Average and marginal productivity (Saari 2011,8)

On 29 October User:Sepsaar did a major expansion of the article. There are several problems with this. First, he removed a lot of valid and helpful material. Second, he replaced it with material drawn from his own publications, which is not a good thing according to Wikipedia rules because this is not supposed to be a publication outlet for summaries of an editor's own previously published material. Third, he put identical content into another article, Productivity; Wikipedia articles are not supposed to duplicate each other.

Fourth, this graph, drawn from one of his publications, is simply wrong in two elementary ways. For one thing, the labels on the curves show that what is measured vertically is average and marginal productivity, but the vertical axis is labeled as real output. They're not the same thing, so the graph is self-contradictory. In addition, there is a range of values of the input for which marginal is above average and yet average is declining; this is impossible. Both of these are such elementary mistakes that they lead me to question whether the Saari papers can be considered as reliable sources for the other things in the current version of the article.

I would note that the Saari references appear to be non-refereed, which Wikipedia generally considers to be a disqualification from being considered a reliable source.

I'm going to remove the incorrect graph, and as time permits I'll go through the article and see if other things need to be fixed and whether the Saari references need to be removed as not reliable. Since Saari has a WP:Conflict of interest, I urge him to refrain from participating in this clean-up process. Loraof (talk) 17:53, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Reason for changing to redirect

A few years ago user:Sepsaar added a huge amount of identical content to several articles (this one (Production theory), Production (economics), Production function, and Profit (accounting)). The material here appears word-for-word in Production (economics), so I’m changing this article to redirect there. Loraof (talk) 17:19, 24 November 2017 (UTC)