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Mainstream Mathematical Economics in the 20th Century

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. PierCarlo Nicola

    1. Department of Mathematics, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

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  • This book covers the important developments in mathematical economics in the last 100 years

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Prolegomena

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Cournot, Walras, and Edgeworth

      • P. Nicola
      Pages 3-16

  3. The Founding Years: 1900–1949

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Pareto and General Equilibrium

      • P. Nicola
      Pages 19-28

    3. Classical General Equilibrium

      • P. Nicola
      Pages 29-43

    4. Wald and Existence Proofs

      • P. Nicola
      Pages 45-48

    5. Early Game Theory

      • P. Nicola
      Pages 49-53

    6. Early Multisectoral Growth

      • P. Nicola
      Pages 55-59

    7. Dynamic Modelling

      • PierCarlo Nicola
      Pages 61-75

    8. Irving Fisher and Interest Theory

      • PierCarlo Nicola
      Pages 77-81

    9. Widening General Equilibrium Theory

      • PierCarlo Nicola
      Pages 83-93

    10. Applied General Equilibrium

      • PierCarlo Nicola
      Pages 95-100

  4. Extensions, Finesses, and Formalism: 1950 on

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-103
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    2. Walras ‘cum’ Leontief

      • PierCarlo Nicola
      Pages 105-115

    3. From Classical to Modern Analysis

      • PierCarlo Nicola
      Pages 117-132

    4. Linear Programming and Extensions

      • Piercar Nicola
      Pages 133-141

    5. Consumer’s Analysis

      • Piercarlo Nicola
      Pages 143-166

    6. Firm’s Analysis

      • Piercarlo Nicola
      Pages 169-196

    7. General Competitive Equilibrium

      • Piercarlo Nicola
      Pages 197-215
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About this book

To write everything about nothing, or to write nothing about everything: this is the problem. (Anonym, circa 1996-97) The first idea to write a book on M athematical Economics, more or less ordered in a historical sequence, occurred to me in 1995, when I was asked, by Istituto delta Enciclopedia Italiana, to write the entry "Storia dell'economia 1 2 matematica" , for the collective work "Storia deI XX Secolo". I thought that it would be interesting to elaborate on the text presented to the editors, to turn it into a book aiming at giving a panorama of what, in my opinion, are the main 20th century contributions to mathematical eco­ nomics. Of course, only a narrow set of the contributions made by economic theorists could be included, both for space limitations and necessity, because 3 of the limited competence of any single author. For instance, I have paid very limited attention to what is now called Macroeconomics, and also to Game Theory, which actually has grown so much as to acquire scientific in­ dependence as a living branch of applied mathematics. For the same reason, I have also left completely untouched such fields as Mathematical Finance, Public Economics, Theory of Taxation, etc. I have always based my presentation on published material only, assuming that what is contained in working papers still waits to be confirmed, possibly in the first years of the 21th century.

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  • Department of Mathematics, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

    PierCarlo Nicola

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