Changes in the productive efficiency of U.S. flour mills in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach
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Productive Efficiency; Technical Efficiency; Scale Efficiency; Input-Distance Function; Flour Milling; Industrial Revolution;All these keywords.
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