Abstract
Reswitching of technique is the property whereby, when multiple production techniques are available in a wage–profit economy, the same technique may be optimal at different levels of the rate of interest. This means that a virtual movement of the rate of interest in a given direction might make it rational to use techniques that had been previously excluded, so that the rate of interest cannot provide an unambiguous ranking of techniques. This possibility is rooted in the complex interactions (movements of relative prices) that occur in a production economy with different proportions between labour and intermediate inputs.
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Scazzieri, R. (2018). Reswitching of Technique. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1405
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