Economics

Socialist economies in Eastern Europe have collapsed and em-barked upon market-oriented reforms.

Enterprise operation efficiency is seriously constrained by the inability to provide the right information, in the right place, at the right time.

Discrete and computational geometry are two fields which in recent years have benefitted from the interaction between mathematics and computer science.

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the "e;Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Social Sciences"e; Meeting held at the Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, on May 27-30, 1991.

The biota of the earth is being altered at an unprecedented rate.

The Background to the Institute The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) 'People and Computers - Applying an Anthropocentric Approach to Integrated Production Systems and Organisations' came about after the distribution of a NATO fact sheet to BruneI University, which described the funding of ASls.

Techniques of optimization are applied in many problems in economics, automatic control, engineering, etc.

In order to survive as a social institution a firm needs a constitutional social contract, even though implicit, among its stakeholders.

It was at the fifth SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and philosophy in autumn 1997 that the organizational work of the seventh conference in 1999 was entrusted to the editors of this volume.

This volume is the product of the "e;Sixth Annual SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and Philosophy"e; on the theme of 'Cultural Factors in Economic Growth' held at Marienrode Monastry, Hildesheim, in April 1998.

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This graduate text develops production theory from a set of reasonable axioms.

Network flow and matching are often treated separately in the literature and for each class a variety of different algorithms has been developed.

The neglect of time in general and of the time structure of production in particular in mainstream economics led to the rebirth of the Austrian tradition in the seventies.

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This volume contains a refereed selection of revised papers which were originally presented at the Second International Conference on Econometric Decision Models, University of Hagen (FernUni- versitat).

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The problem to be considered here is the one faced by bargainers who must reach a consensus--i.

Jay Forrester's Economic Dynamics was published in 1971 and The Limits to Growth by Dennis Meadows and his associates appeared a year later.

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Nonlinear dynamics is now recognized as playing a crucialrole in a wide variety of disciplines.

One of the driving forces behind much of modern science andtechnology is the desire to foresee and thereby control thefuture.

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In many fields of science and practice large amounts of dataand informationare collected for analyzing and visualizinglatent structures as orderings or classifications forexample.

Die schädlichen Auswirkungen der Luftverschmutzung sind sowohl ein ökologisches als auch ein ökonomisches Problem.

This research was supported by the World Bank and the Social Sciences and Humanities R~search Council of Canada.

The approach presented in this book combines two aspects of generalizations of the noncooperative game as developed by Nash.

These Notes grew from my research in evolutionary biology, specifically on the theory of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESS theory), over the past ten years.

A bibliography on stochastic orderings.