Economic theory and philosophy

In this book overlapping generations economies are analysedfrom a game theoretical point of view and the socialacceptability of consumption allocations is studied ininfinite horizon models of pure exchange economieswithagents with finite lifetimes who behave cooperatively.

In the last decade highly innovatory developments have taken place in theoretical economics.

This book develops a macro disequilibrium model, focusing on the production sector and the associated spillover effects.

Using panel data of individual firms drawn from French surveys, a structural analysis is developed to study the formation of production plans and the rationality of expectations.

Generalizations of convex functions have been used in a variety of fields such as economics.

Elements of a Nonlinear Theory of Economic Dynamics provides both a framework and a survey of its needs.

Redistribution is one of the most fundamental issues in welfare economics.

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This book treats the subject of global optimization with minimal restrictions on the behavior on the objective functions.

Since 1973, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels has organized regular workshops in the area of management science.

During the last fifteen years certain very fundamental aspects of economic theory have been very actively debated.

Introducing his book "e;The Theory of UnemPloyment Reconsidered"e;, Professor Malinvaud expressed several years ago his hope "e;to convey [his] strong belief that the reconsideration is a major step in the development of our science"e;.

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Those familiar with input-output analysis know well that compilation of input-output tables is a difficult statistical work.

The Fifth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, not suprisingly, had several objectives.

Semi-infinite programming is a natural extension of linear pro- gramming that allows finitely many variables to appear in infinitely many constraints.

This volume is the final result of the research project 'Micro growth model"e;, that was sponsored by the Central Research Pool of Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

The present monograph analyses some topics in the pure theory of international trade.

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These Lecture Notes arose from discussions we had over a working paper written by the first author in fall 1987.

Economists can rarely perform controlled experiments to generate data.

Structural exchange rate modeling has proven extremely difficult during the recent post-1973 float.

This book is a treatise on empirical microeconomics: it describes the econometric theory of qualitative choice models and the empirical practice of modeling consumer demand for a heterogeneous commodity, housing.

In seminars and graduate level courses I have had several opportunities to discuss modeling and analysis of time series with economists and economic graduate students during the past several years.

The theory of Lie groups has proven to be a most powerful analytical tool in many areas of modern scientific endeavors.

This book is an outgrowth of years of teaching and doing re- search at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in the area of economic growth.

During the Spring of 1979 one of us (Zionts) was invited to visit Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

This Lecture Note deals with asymptotic properties, i.

The Fourth International MCDM Conference follows a tradition that began with an exploratory gathering at the University of South Carolina in 1973.

Decision making is the process of selecting a possible course of action from all the available alternatives.

This paper is one of a series in which the ideas of category theory are applied to problems of system theory.

The aim of this book is the presentation of two new descriptive theories for experimental bargaining games and a comparison with other descriptive and normative theories.

In this book interrelated factor demand models are surveyed.

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the symposium on "e;Decision processes in Economics"e; which was held in Modena (Italy) on 9-10 October 1989.

Presentation Many economic problems, as equilibrium models, input-output analysis, rational behaviour, etc.

In the modern world of gigantic datasets, which scientists and practioners of all fields of learning are confronted with, the availability of robust, scalable and easy-to-use methods for pattern recognition and data mining are of paramount importance, so as to be able to cope with the avalanche of data in a meaningful way.

Overview This book is a philosophical reflection (using mainly Hegel, in addition to 1 Adam Smith, Kant, Marx and Catholic Social Thought) about the soc- political dimension of economics.

This book presents in a unified way the mathematical theory of well-posedness in optimization.

The study of complementarity problems is now an interestingmathematical subject with many applications in optimization,game theory, stochastic optimal control, engineering,economics etc.

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