A função de produção de uma economia celestial não gaiética de exploração

Abstract

The recent developments and the progress expected for the near future in the field of economic space exploration make the economic studies of extraterrestrial space to be even more important nowadays. A theorization of ‘astrospacial’ economics in general, sooner or later, will be necessary. A production function of an exploitation economy on what has been called a ‘non-gaietic celestial body’ – celestial bodies incapable of hosting a self-sufficient human economy, for any reason whatsoever – is presented, on the basis of an analysis of their realities. The concept of ‘gaietic celestial bodies’ is also presented and explained. For that, researches on various fields were utilized, from economics, to serve as a basis for the truly economical part of this work, to astrophysics, with the intent of explaining the behaviour of each factor of the production function. A reasonable theoretical production function has been described: Yβ = f(Kβ , Nβ , Lβ , Sβ , Uβ). The factor capital (Kβ) will be doing all the ‘hard work’, while the factor labour (Lβ) will have the role of reducing the costs of depreciation of the capital. The factor natural resources (Nβ) determines what can be extracted from the body concerned, the factor technological progress (Sβ) will determine the efficiency of the process of production and the factor institutions (Uβ) will be responsible for regulating the market, offering more security and alterations on the productivity of each factor, be it for more, be it for less. These results implicate a great importance of the factor capital (Kβ) on the production, at the same time they mean that the factor labour (Lβ), in contrast with the normal telluric production function, does not have a vital importance on the production process. Other sketches of the general characteristics of this production function are made in a section of comparison with other production functions of striking presence in the literature.