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Author Cassels, J. W. S. (John William Scott)

Title Economics for mathematicians / J.W.S. Cassels
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 145 pages) : illustrations
Series London Mathematical Society lecture note series, 0076-0552 ; 62
London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 62. 0076-0552
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Notation; Chapter 1. UTILITY, INDIFFERENCE SURFACES; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Budget constraints; 3. Indifference hypersurfaces; 4. Utility functions; Exercises; Chapter 2. PURE EXCHANGE ECONOMY; 1. Introduction; 2. The Edgeworth box; 3. Existence of competitive allocations; 4. Replicated economies; 5. Non-convex economies; Exercises; Chapter 3. THEORY OF THE FIRM; 1. Introduction; 2. Supply and demand; 3. Perfect competition; 4. Monopoly; 5. Duopoly; 6. Oligopoly; 7. Factor costs; Exercises; Chapter 4. WELFARE ECONOMICS; 1. Introduction; 2. Public good
3. Service subject to congestion4. Increasing returns to scale; 5. Externalities; 6. Arrow's impossibility theorem; Exercises; 3. The Sraffa and Marx models; Chapter 5. LINEAR ECONOMIC MODELS; 1. Introduction; 2. Closed and open Leontieff models; 4. The Gale economy; 5. von Neumann model; 6. Turnpike theorems; Exercises; Chapter 6. SIMPLE MACROECONOMIC MODELS; 1. Introduction; 2. An ultrasimple model; 3. Government; 4. Employment; 5. Prices; 6. Interest; 7. Money; 8. The labour market; 9. Full employment; 10. Unemployment; 11. The long term; Definition of symbols; Exercises
Appendix A. CONVEX SETS1. Fundamentals; 2. Separation theorems; 3. Differential properties; Exercises; Appendix B. THE BROUWER FIXED POINT THEORSM; Addendum. Kakutani's theorem; Appendix C. NON-NEGATIVE MATRICES; Exercises; Index
Summary This is the expanded notes of a course intended to introduce students specializing in mathematics to some of the central ideas of traditional economics. The book should be readily accessible to anyone with some training in university mathematics; more advanced mathematical tools are explained in the appendices. Thus this text could be used for undergraduate mathematics courses or as supplementary reading for students of mathematical economics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Economics, Mathematical.
Economics.
Economics -- Mathematical models.
Economics
economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economics
Economics, Mathematical
Economics -- Mathematical models
Mathematiker
Wirtschaftsmathematik
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Mathématiques économiques.
Economie.
Economie -- Modèles mathématiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107361171
1107361176
9780511663024
0511663021