Discussion 3.1: Production Consider the three articles on estimating production and cost functions for this LP.  Now consider that you have been hired by a firm to estimate the production capabilities and the per unit costs of the firm’s competition.  How easy or difficult will it be for you to complete your task?  What tools, data, and techniques will you use to be able to estimate the output and costs of the competing firms?  Defend your answers and cite your sources.  1.  Parkin, D., & Hollingsworth, B. (1997). Measuring production efficiency of acute hospitals in Scotland, 1991-94: Validity issues in data envelopment analysis. Applied Economics, 29(11), 1425-1433. doi:10.1080/000368497326255 Manonmani, M. M. (2013). A stochastic frontier production function approach to Indian textile industry. Indian Journal Of Industrial Relations,48(4), 703-710.  Mairesse, J., & Jaumandreu, J. (2005). Panel-data estimates of the production function and the revenue function: What difference does it make?. Scandinavian Journal Of Economics, 107(4), 651-672. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00431.x 2 paragraphs Discussion 3.2: Costs Discuss why is it important for a firm manager to be able to differentiate between the different types of costs such as historical costs, accounting costs, opportunity costs, long run costs, short run costs, private costs, and social costs?  How can knowing this differentiation be used by the firm’s manager to the firm’s benefit?  Then, using the NAU library, find and discuss articles about firms that illustrate these 7 different types of costs in the real world. (Note: you will probably need to use more than one article to be able to discuss all of these different costs)  Defend your answer and cite your sources Bottom of Form These discussions are two separated discussions.

Cultural Economics paper and it should be at least 8 pages.With academic references APA style.Define in your own words the moaning of "development" generally, and more specifically "economic development". Survey and discuss the problems faced by less-developed countries (LDCs), including an assessment of the efforts that have been made— by/ both developed countries (DCs) and LDCs — to stimulate economic development In the last seventy years since the end of World War II.  Discuss what you see as the most promising future path(s) to development over the next fifty years. 

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