Ch. 1. Introduction Ch. 2. Lattices, Supermodular Functions, and Related Topics Ch. 3. Optimal Decision Models Ch. 4. Noncooperative Games Ch. 5. Cooperative Games
Summary
The economics literature is replete with examples of monotone comparative statics; that is, scenarios where optimal decisions or equilibria in a parameterized collection of models vary monotonically with the parameter. Most of these examples are manifestations of complementarity, with a common explicit or implicit theoretical basis in properties of a super-modular function on a lattice. Supermodular functions yield a characterization for complementarity and extend the notion of complementarity to a general setting that is a natural mathematical context for studying complementarity and monotone
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index
