When it comes to business, maximizing sales and profits are two fundamental objectives. Sales maximization is a business strategy that a company implements when it wants to focus on generating as much ...

When a small business is first getting started, its goal may appear relatively straight forward: to make as much money as possible for its owners. But for a business to be successful long term, a new ...

This paper hinges on the distinction between "maximizing profit" and "making profit." It recounts from Adam Smith the ethical basis for profit making, and observes in Augustin Cournot why the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article seeks to develop the concept of profit used in the micro-economic theory of the firm and to examine its potential as an ...

Writing in the WSJ last week, economics professor Paul Rubin “takes the community organizer-in-chief to task for his dismissive comments about profit maximization” (ht/E. Frank Stephenson): In ...