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Foundation texts Wright, T., "Factors Affecting the Cost of Airplanes" , Journal of Aeronautical Science, Volume 3, No.2, pp. 122-128, 1936. Arrow, K. J., "The economic implications of learning by doing". The Review of Economic Studies. Oxford Journals. 29 (3): 155–73, 1962. Boole, G., "The Laws of Thought on which are founded The Mathematic Theories of Logic and Probabilities",First Edition, 1854. Belkaoui, A., "The Learning Curve - A Management Accounting Tool", Quorum Books,1986. Howard, R. A., "Readings in Decision Analysis", Decision Analysis Group, SRI International, Melo Park, 1977. Solow, R. M., "Technical change and the aggregate production function". Review of Economics and Statistics. 39 (3): 312–20 ,1957. Solow, R. M., "Learning from- "LEARNING BY DOING" - Lessons for Economic Growth, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997. Kaldor, N., "A Model of Economic Growth", The Economic Journal, Volume 67, Issue 268, Pages 591–624, 1957. Kaldor, N., "Causes of the Slow Rate of Economic Growth of the United Kingdom". An Inaugural Lecture. London, Cambridge University Press, 1966. Matthews, R. C. O., "Why Has Britain Had Full Employment since the War?", Economic Journal, 78, London, 1968. Mayo, E., "The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization", Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London, 148pp. 1949. McNeill, H. W., “On the Problem of Technological Ignorance amongst KM Economists”, Charter House Essays in Political Economy, HPC, December 1981, ISBN: 978-0-907833-10-9 Moore, G. E., “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits”, Electronics, Volume 38, Number 8, April 19, 1965. More detailed aspects of learning curve including quantitative analysies and models Andress, F. J.,"The Learning Curve as a ProductionTool", Harvard Business Rview, (January-Febtuaty 1954) p.87. Baloff, N., "Startups in Machine Intensive Production Systems", Journal of lndustrial Economics (January 1966) p.26. Baloff, N., "Extension of the Learning Curve-Some Empirical Results", Operational Research Quarterly (Vol. 22,.No. 4. 1971)' pp' 329-340. Belkaoui, "Costing through learning"", Cost & Management (May-June, 1976) pp. 36-40. Carr, G. W., "Peacetime Cost Estimating Requires New Learning Curves", Aviation (Vol. 45, April 1946). Cochran, E. B., "New Concepts of the Learning Curve," Journal of lndustrial Engineering (July-August, 1960), p. 324. Conway R. W., "& Schultz, A., "The Manufacturing Progress Function", Journal of Industrial Engineering, (January-February 1959). Delong., J. R. "The Effects of Increasing Skill on Cycle Time and its Consequences for Time Standards", Ergonomics (November 1957). Glover, J. H., "Manufacturing Progress Functions. I. An Alternative Model and Its Comparison with Existing Functions", lnternational Journal of Pro- duction Research (Vol. 4, No. 4, 1966), pp. 279-300. Hirsch, W. Z., "Manufacturing Progress Functions", Review of Economics and Statistics (Vol. 34, May 1952), pp. 143-155. Hirschmann, W. B., "Profit from the Learning Curve"'Harvard Business Review (January-February 1964),pp.128 Nagy, B., J. Farmer, J. D., Bui, Q. M., Trancik, J. E., "Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress", 2012, Santa Fe Institute, St. John's College, and Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. 2012. Reguero, M., "The Economic Study of the Military Plane Industry"," (Wright-Patterson AirForce Base,Ohio:Department of the AirForce,l957) p.213. Kilbridge, M. D., "A Model for Industrial Learning Costs," Management Science (Vol. 8, No. 4, July 1962). Nadler G & Smith W. D., "Manufacturing Progress Functions for Type of Process", International Journal of Production Research (June 1963). L.E.Preston, L. E. & Keachie, E. C., "Cost Functions and Progress Functions: An Integration", American Economic Review (March 1964). Turban, E., "Incentives During Learning-An Application of the Learning Curve Theory and a Survey of Other Methods", Journal of lndustrial Engineering (December 1968). Vayda, T. G., "How to Use the Learning Curve for Planning and Control", Cost and Management (July-August 1972), p. 28. Pegels, C. C., "On Startup or Learning Curves: An Expanded Yiew", AIIE Transactions (Vol. 1, No. 3, September 1969), pp.216-222. Levy, "Adaptation in the Production Process," pp. 8136-81.54. Asher, H., "Cost-Quantity Relationships in the Airplane Industry", Report No. R-291, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif., July 1, 1956. Garg., A. & Milliman, P., "The Aircraft Progress Curve-Modified for Design Changes," Journal of lndustrial Engineering (Vol. 12, No. 23, January- February 1961), pp. 23-28. Hoffman, F. S., "Comments on the Modified Form of the Aircraft Progress Functions", Report No. RN-464, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif., 1950. |