naa a22 4500 510775233 CHVBK 20180411083228.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1134/S1075700713030088 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1134/S1075700713030088 Nekipelov A. Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia aut Behavior of a firm which maximizes the rate of profit: Specific features [Elektronische Daten] [A. Nekipelov] The author challenges the well-known assumption of the modern microeconomic theory, stating that the maximization of economic profit is a natural aim of a firm. The article asserts that the behavior of a firm controlled by private owners of capital should be linked to the firm's desire to maximize the rate of profit. The return to the interpretation of a capitalist firm's motivation, which is characteristic of the period of the classical political economy, makes it necessary to reconsider some established views, namely, the demand for physical capital by a firm; the optimal combination of production factors used; the scale of output, which maximizes the firm's objective function; and the character of the firm's cost functions (both economic and accounting). The conclusions drawn by the author also have some practical significance. A deep understanding of the genuine economic aims and motives, which determine the behavior of different types of firms, is especially important for a government searching for the optimal use of its assets. Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2013 Studies on Russian Economic Development SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica 24/3(2013-05-01), 208-219 1075-7007 24:3<208 2013 24 11507 https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075700713030088 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075700713030088 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nekipelov A. Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies on Russian Economic Development SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica 24/3(2013-05-01), 208-219 1075-7007 24:3<208 2013 24 11507 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer