In capitalist economies, the primary goal of for-profit companies is to maximize their profits. This doesn't mean that companies focus on profits at the expense of everything else, though. Instead, ...

Maximizing profit is a common long-term goal for new business owners or managers. However, you often have to work through a number of constraints, some that you have control over and others that you ...

The American Economic Review is a general-interest economics journal. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in the economics profession and is ...

Economic profit contrasts from net income by subtracting both usual costs and missed alternative profits. Short-term economic losses may lead to long-term gains if underlying business strategies ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard ...

An Excel workbook called ProfitMax.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard. The Comparative Statics Wizard is an Excel add-in that walks the user through ...

I asked Prof. Bainbridge whether I could cross-post this from Corporate Finance Lab, and he kindly agreed: What is the purpose of a corporation? Is it, as Nobel Economics laureate Milton Friedman ...

In justifying his attacks on Bain Capital, President Obama argues that "profit maximization" might be an appropriate goal for a private-equity firm, but not for more general public policy. This ...