Lawrence J. Lau, Pan A. Yotopoulos, Profit, Supply, and Factor Demand Functions, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Feb., 1972), pp. 11-18 ...

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 27, No. 1 (July 2002), pp. 94-113 (20 pages) The relationships among cost functions, distance functions, and technical inefficiency are utilized to ...

The utility function can be used to derive the demand function, and both concepts relate to utility maximization.