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It has long been recognised that production studies have lacked any satisfactory treatment of capital utilisation. Perhaps the paucity of data discouraged theoretical developments or perhaps little effort was expended on gathering data until some theoretical case was made for doing so.
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Heathfield, D. (1979). Capital Utilisation and Input Substitution. In: Patterson, K.D., Schott, K. (eds) The Measurement of Capital. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04127-5_10
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