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Routledge Dictionary of Economics, 3rd Edition
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Routledge Dictionary of Economics, 3rd Edition

by Donald Rutherford
June 2013
Beginner
712 pages
31h 49m
English
Routledge
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X-efficiency (D4)

LEIBENSTEIN’S concept of efficiency that rejects the technical efficiency notion of profit maximizing and cost minimizing. He argued that individual workers are free to choose their effort level and interpret their own jobs. The equilibrium position for a firm will be when every individual is in his or her ‘inert area’, an effort point which, if moved away from, would reduce utility. This level of ‘efficiency’ and associated cost is comfortable for a firm’s individuals. Prices are fixed using conventional formulae.

References

Leibenstein, H. (1976) Beyond Economic Man: A New Foundation for Macroeconomics, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

—— (1978) General X-Efficiency Theory and Economic Development, New York and ...

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