Handbook of Mathematical Economics: Volume 1 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444861262 ISBN 13: 9780444861269

Publisher: North Holland, 1984

Synopsis

The Handbook of Mathematical Economics aims to provide a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for the field of mathematical economics. It surveys, as of the late 1970's the state of the art of mathematical economics. This is a constantly developing field and all authors were invited to review and to appraise the current status and recent developments in their presentations. In addition to its use as a reference, it is intended that this Handbook will assist researchers and students working in one branch of mathematical economics to become acquainted with other branches of this field. Volume 1 deals with Mathematical Methods in Economics, including reviews of the concepts and techniques that have been most useful for the mathematical development of economic theory.

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Review:

Opinions/Reviews on Volumes I, II and III: All in all this is an excellent set of surveys which any institution with a serious graduate programme will want to have in their library.
Economic Journal
All of the surveys in this book are written by recognized leaders in their respective areas of mathematical economics... The editors of the Handbook have been remarkably successful in recruiting distinguished authors and in including them to write careful and detailed surveys.
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Judging from the quality of this Handbook, the publisher and the Editors are to be praised for an impressive start, and the reader can expect more good stuff to come.
Readers who are mathematically equipped will find this Handbook the most efficient tool of gaining access to the economics discipline and the research problems that are being actively pursued.

Zeitschrift für Operations Research: Series A-Theory
...it will serve for many years as a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for the field of mathematical economics.
Optima

About the Author:

Kenneth Arrow is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, emeritus; a CHP/PCOR fellow; and an FSI senior fellow by courtesy. He is the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51. In economics, he is a figure in post-World War II neo-classical economic theory. Many of his former graduate students have gone on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize themselves. His most significant works are his contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis. He has also provided foundational work in many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and the economics of information. He has been co-editor of the Handbooks in Economics series since the mid-1980s.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0444861262
• ISBN 13: 9780444861269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Arrow Kenneth J., Intriligator M.D.