Can every allocation in the core of an economy be decentralized by
a suitably chosen price system? Werner Hildenbrand shows that the
answer is yes if the economy has "many" participating agents and if
the influence of every individual agent on collective actions is
"negligible." To give a general and precise definition of economics
with this property he considers both economies with a continuum of
agents, and a sequence of economies with an increasing number of
participants. In both cases this leads to a measure theoretic
formulation of economic equilibrium analysis. In the first part of
the book the relevant mathematics is developed. In the second part
the continuity and convexity properties of the total demand of a
consumption sector are investigated. An important result is the
equivalence between the core and the set of Walras equilibria for
an exchange economy with a continuum of agents. The author then
deals with limit theorems on the core for purely competitive
sequences of exchange economies. In the last chapter the core and
the set of Walras equilibria for a coalition production economy and
the relation between these two equilibrium concepts are studied.
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General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Princeton Studies in Mathematical Economics |
Release date: |
February 2015 |
First published: |
2015 |
Authors: |
Werner Hildenbrand
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Dimensions: |
235 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
262 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-61878-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Economic theory & philosophy
|
LSN: |
0-691-61878-X |
Barcode: |
9780691618784 |
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