Economic theory and philosophy

Economic behavior is explored from a psychological perspective by both, prominent economic psychologists with a long tradition in studying economic problems as well as economists who are open and interested in the psychological aspects of economic behavior.

The purpose of this study is in keeping with the shift in concern over the eco- nomic problems of growth to those of income distribution in recent years.

This report portrays the results of experimental research on dynamic duopoly markets with demand inertia.

This monograph is a treatise on adjustment processes.

Matroid theory has its origin in a paper by H.

The three major aims of the present study were to (a) test some of the major game-theoretic solutions for n-person games in characteristic function form with data obtained from "e;rational"e; players; (b) locate, assess, and explain differences between sophisticated and naive subjects in coalition frequencies and payoff disbursements; and (c) provide a common data base for bargaining process analyses and testing of both present and future models.

This mono graph is intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as weIl as for the researchers who want a compilation of developments in this rapidly growing field of operations research.

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The essays in this volume were presented to Professor Isamu Yamada in honor of his seventy-third birthday.

This work was written during my visits at CORE (Belgium), at the Faculty of Economics and Politics in Cambridge (England), and at the Department of Mathematics at the ETH in ZUrich.

This book develops a general solution concept for strategic games which resolves strategic uncertainty completely.

In each chapter of this volume some specific topics in the econometric analysis of time series data are studied.

This is a revised version of a doctoral thesis, submitted in mimeographed fonn to the Faculty of Arts, Uppsala University, 1988.

Economic theory of the last fifty years has been dominated by the paradigm of General Equilibrium Theory, based on the scientific work of Walras-Pareto-Cassel-Wald-Hicks-Arrow-De- breu-McKenzie.

The proceedings of the Second US-Italy Seminar on Variable Structure Systems is published in this volume.

Inventory changes constitute in all countries a small fraction of the Gross National Product but also a major source or an indicator of cyclical fluctuations.

Generalizations of the classical concept of a convexfunction have been proposed in various fields such aseconomics, management science, engineering, statistics andapplied sciences during the second half of this century.

International commodity markets have traditionally attracted the attention of economists, econometricians, and policy makers especially in and following politically tumultuous times.

A real imports of capital and intermediate goods declinedsharply for highlyindebted countries in the 1980s, theseeconomies were faced with the need tosubstitute previouslyimported factors of production with domestic capital andlabor.

This monograph is intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as well as for researchers, who want a compilation of developments in this rapidly growing field of operations research.

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.

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.