Economic effects of scale increases in the steel industry : the case of U.S. blast furnaces : published in cooperation with the Research Program in Industrial Economics of Case Western Reserve University / Myles G. Boylan, Jr.

Author: Boylan, Myles
Published: New York : Praeger, 1975.
Physical Description: xix, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Praeger special studies in U.S. economic, social, and political issues

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CONCEPTS AND SOURCES OF ECONOMIES OF SCALE: A critique of prevailing concepts -- Sources of economies of scale -- PREVAILING APPROACHES TO ANALYZING SCALE EFFECTS: Direct evidence on economies of scale: the statistical and engineering approach -- Indirect evidence derived from deductive models -- The industry case study approach -- A PROPOSED MODEL FOR ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF SCALE: The scope of the modeling problem -- The basic production model -- Changes in scale and the basic production model -- The effects of other changes on the basic production model -- The basic production model and the blast furnace sector of the steel industry -- THE BLAST FURNACE INDUSTRY: The blast furnace process as a step in steelmaking -- The blast furnace and its ancillary equipment notes -- THE IRON-BEARING MATERIALS: Notable characteristics -- Classifying iron-bearing materials to measure changes in quality -- Gaps in the data on key characteristics of the iron-bearing materials -- An overview of changes in supply, consumption, and quality -- The 1900-55 period -- The recent years: 1955-70 -- and THE SOURCES OF ENERGY AND THE FLUXING AGENTS: Background information -- The coke and flux rates from 1910 to 1955 -- A statistical analysis of the coke and flux -- Modifying the statistical analysis of industry -- BLAST FURNACE PRODUCTIVITY: The 1950-70 period: technical background -- Statistical analysis of company x's data: 1950-70 -- Industry estimates for 1950-70 based on company x relationships -- Some qualifications -- Improvements since 1950 in U.S. blast furnace -- The 1900-50 period -- The effect of fluctuations in demand on furnace productivity -- LABOR: Employment and productivity -- Productivity and technological considerations -- SOME EVIDENCE ON ECONOMOIES OF SCALE IN THE IRON INDUSTRY: Sources of increase in the average size of blast furnaces -- Economic, technical and managerial factors -- Cost factors -- THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE BLAST FURNACE SECTOR: Categories of inputs and their proportions of total revenue -- Factor prices -- Input-output ratios -- Unit costs relative to the composite price of iron-bearing materials.

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0275097900

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Includes index.

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Bibliography: pages 208-212.

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Economic effects of scale increases in the steel industry : the case of U.S. blast furnaces : published in cooperation with the Research Program in Industrial Economics of Case Western Reserve University / Myles G. Boylan, Jr.

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