Modeling Foundations of Economic Property Rights Theory

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIII

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2. Economic Property Rights Dilemma

   Pages 1-22

3. Definition of Enterprises

   Pages 23-70

4. Opening Structures

   Pages 71-105

5. Representation Theory

   Pages 107-166

6. Reconstruction Theory

   Pages 167-214

7. Back Matter

   Pages 215-229

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This is an introduction to the foundations of economic property rights t- ory (EPRT). In this volume, a ?rst step in the EPRT research program, rules concerningeconomicpropertyrights(e. p. r. s),entrepreneurialagreements,and enterprises are discussed. Introduced concept of e. p. r. s is an extension of the traditional concept of pairing of residual rights of control and residual rights of returns in the economic theory. Its importance in economics is generated fromageneralimpossibilityofmakingacompletecontract,concerninge. p. r. s, for any nontrivial economic transaction. The volume o?ers a theoretical - tension of mathematical economics, applying recent results of Hopf algebras, quasi-Hopf algebras, representation theory, theory of categories, and defor- tion theories, in looking for suitable mathematical methodology of economic property rights theories and foundations of general theory of economic agr- ments. The idea is to construct a kind of mathematical application in which any fundamental formal entity and/or operation has an empirical economic interpretation. This approach is seen as a way to cope with an extreme c- plexity of economic phenomena under consideration and requests for precise formulationofmodelswheremeaningfulanswersandsolutionsofproblemsare only those which are obtained rigorously. The proposed extensions in ma- ematical economics and property rights theory are to provide rich enough foundations to follow complexity of economic property rights in the exact way, and to identify where there is an appropriate method providing a- quate solution, and also to ?nd problems where in general there is no such methodology.

• Entrepreneurial Agreements
• Property Rights
• Theory of Economic Agreements
• calculus
• mathematical economics
• modeling
• operational research

From the reviews:

"The monograph is an introduction to the foundations of economic property rights theory on a base of axiomatic analysis of economic agreements. The book offers a theoretical extension of mathematical economics, applying recent results of Hopf algebras, representation theory, theory of categories and deformation theories, in looking for suitable methodology of economic property rights theory and foundations of general theory of economic agreements. … The monograph is relevant for academics … ." (Sergei Georgievich Zhuravlev, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1135 (13), 2008)

• Department of Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Charalambos D. Aliprantis

• Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA

  Nicholas C. Yannelis

• EPRSA, Ithaca, USA

  Vesna Pasetta

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