Economic theory and philosophy

Due to the limited number of digits or bits per storage location in electronic computers, round-off errors arise during arithmetic operations.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

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Vom Verlag wurde ich beauftragt, einen Ersatzband für das seit längerer Zeit vergriffene und bei ihm in mehreren Auflagen erschienene Buch des verstorbenen A.

Aktueller Überblick über die Möglichkeiten, Simulation als betriebswirtschaftliche Entscheidungshilfe einzusetzen.

The theory of optimal decisions in a stochastic environment has seen many new developments in recent years.

These notes are based on the material presented in a series of lec- tures in the IBM Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in Geneva durJng 1967-1969 to systems engineers working in the design and programming of computer systems for control and monitoring of i~nustrial proc- esses.

This volume is a compendium of papers presented during the NATO Workshop which took place in Capri, Italy, October 12-18, 1986 on the general subject of "e;Flow Control of Congested Networks: The Case of Data Processing and Transportation"e;, and of which we acted as co-chairmen.

New theories of international trade suggest that pro-tectionism can make sense.

This book was written for an introductory one-semester or two-quarter course in stochastic processes and their applications.

One of the major issues of policy makers in The Netherlands is to reduce the high unemployment rate.

In this book voter behavior is analyzed from an economist's point of view.

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Rolle Kollektivauseinandersetzungen zwischen Arbeitgebern und Gewerkschaften in einer Volkswirtschaft mit zentralisiertem Arbeitsmarkt spielen.

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The NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "e;Algorithms and Model Formulations in Mathematical Programming"e; was held at Chr.

The author of this book, Igor' Vladimirovich Girsanov, was one of the first mathematicians to study general extremum problems and to realize the feasibility and desirability of a unified theory of extremal problems, based on a functional- analytic approach.

The years following World War II have witnessed an increasing interest in the effects of growth on trade, the patterns of international specialization, and the terms of trade.

These notes are the result of an interrupted sequence of seminars on optimiza- tion theory with economic applications starting in 1964-1965.

This short monograph which presents a unified treatment of the theory of estimating an economic relationship from a time series of cross-sections, is based on my Ph.

The following lecture notes were written shortly after I gave a course on capital theory in the winter-semester 1970/71 at the Univer- sity of Heidelberg.

The literature on economic problems connected with measuring and modelling of welfare and inequality has grown rapidly within the last decade.

Let us start with the description of the purpose of this book.

A social dilemma is a game which at first glance has only inefficient solutions.

Is our world more dynamic than it used to be in the past?

In this book, a model of long-term interrelationshipsbetween income distribution, population growth and economicdevelopment is developed and estimated from data for 54countries.

This book gives an introduction to the mathematical theory of cooperative behavior in active systems of various origins, both natural and artificial.

Usually, the first edition of a book still contains a multiplicity of typographic, con- ceptional, and computational errors even if one believes the opposite at the time of publication.

The favourable reception of the first edition and the encouragement received from many readers have prompted the author to bring out this new edition.

The aim of this book is to give an up to date account of the most commonly uses statisti- cal models for categorical data.

Since the publication of the first edition of our book, geometric algorithms and combinatorial optimization have kept growing at the same fast pace as before.

DYNAMIC ECONOMICS with increasing returns is extended tocope with economic growth, the business cycles and theirregular swings in the long-term development as differentaspects of the same dynamical system, the economic system"e;as a whole"e;.

There have been significant developments in the theory and practice of combinatorial optimization in the last 15 years.

The initial purposes of this book were to update and extend the discussion and the results presented ill our previous book, The Labor Market and Business Cycle Theories.

Economic Policy in a Demographically Divided World containsthe economic analysis of the consequences of demographicchange and the diverging population developments in aninterdependent world economy in particular.

It is not an exaggeration to state that most problems dealt with in economic theory can be formulated as problems in optimization theory.

This monograph deals with various classes of deterministic and stochastic continuous time optimal control problems that are defined over unbounded time intervals.

Aggregation is the conjunction of information, aimed at its compact represen- tation.

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Since 1987, the investigation of the relationship between female labour market behaviour and fertility, which forms part of the research programme of the Economic Institute / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Labour Market and Distribution Issues (CIAV) of Utrecht University, also became a part of the research programme of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI).

Synergetic Economics presents a new advance in analytical economics.

In this book, the author adopts a state space approach to time series modeling to provide a new, computer-oriented method for building models for vector-valued time series.