Mathematical optimization and economic theory /

Mathematical Optimization and Economic Theory provides a self-contained introduction to and survey of mathematical programming and control techniques and their applications to static and dynamic problems in economics, respectively. It is distinctive in showing the unity of the various approaches to...

• Main Author: Intriligator, Michael D., 1938-2014
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1971
• Subjects: OPTIMIZACION; PROGRAMACION LINEAL; TEORIA DE LOS JUEGOS; ECONOMIA DEL BIENESTAR; CALCULO; CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO; MATRICES; EQUILIBRIO ECONOMICO; TEORIA DE LA OPTIMIZACION; EQUILIBRIO GENERAL; PROGRESO ECONOMICO; ALGEBRA MATRICIAL

Table of Contents:

• Pte. 1. Introduction: 1. Economizing and the economy
• Pte. 2. Static optimization: 2. The mathematical programming problem
• 3. Classical programming
• 4. Nonlinear programming
• 5. Linear programming
• 6. Game theory
• Pte. 3. Applications of static optimization: 7. Theory of the household
• 8. Theory of the firm
• 9. General equilibrium
• 10. Welfare economics
• Pte. 4. Dynamic optimization: 11. The control problem
• 12. Calculus of variations
• 13. Dynamic programming
• 14. Maximum principle
• 15. Differential games
• Pte. 5. Applications of dynamic optimizacion: 16. Optimical economic growth.