Preface to the third edition |
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The nature and scope of microeconomics |
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1 | (10) |
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1 | (7) |
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The economic and social framework |
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8 | (3) |
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The theory of the consumer |
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11 | (35) |
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11 | (11) |
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22 | (3) |
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25 | (4) |
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The comparative statics of consumer behaviour |
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29 | (7) |
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Offer curves and net demand curves |
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36 | (10) |
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Appendix 1: The lexicographic ordering |
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41 | (2) |
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Appendix 2: Existence of a utility function |
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43 | (3) |
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46 | (25) |
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46 | (6) |
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The indirect utility function, Roy's identity and the Slutsky equation |
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52 | (6) |
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Measuring the benefits of price changes |
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58 | (8) |
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Composite commodities, separability and homotheticity |
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66 | (5) |
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Further models of consumer behaviour |
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71 | (21) |
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71 | (6) |
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The consumer as a labour supplier |
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77 | (5) |
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Consumption and the allocation of time |
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82 | (4) |
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86 | (6) |
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92 | (19) |
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92 | (4) |
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96 | (5) |
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101 | (4) |
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Variations in input proportions |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (4) |
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111 | (32) |
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111 | (3) |
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Long-run cost minimization |
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114 | (12) |
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Short-run cost minimization |
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126 | (9) |
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Cost minimization with several plants |
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135 | (3) |
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Multi-product cost functions |
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138 | (5) |
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Supply and firm objectives |
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143 | (27) |
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Long-run profit maximization |
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144 | (4) |
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Short-run profit maximization |
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148 | (3) |
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151 | (3) |
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The profit function and comparative statics |
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154 | (5) |
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159 | (5) |
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164 | (6) |
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The theory of a competitive market |
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170 | (20) |
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170 | (5) |
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175 | (9) |
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184 | (5) |
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189 | (1) |
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190 | (20) |
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190 | (1) |
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Price and output determination under monopoly |
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191 | (3) |
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194 | (11) |
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205 | (5) |
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210 | (17) |
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210 | (6) |
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216 | (4) |
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Unions as monopoly input suppliers |
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220 | (3) |
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223 | (4) |
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227 | (23) |
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227 | (1) |
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Optimal consumption over time |
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227 | (4) |
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The optimal investment decision |
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231 | (9) |
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Capital market equilibrium under certainty |
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240 | (5) |
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Extension to many periods |
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245 | (5) |
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250 | (29) |
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250 | (1) |
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Walrasian equilibrium of a competitive economy |
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251 | (3) |
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Existence of Walrasian equilibrium |
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254 | (6) |
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Stability of Walrasian equilibrium |
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260 | (6) |
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Edgeworth exchange theory |
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266 | (3) |
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Exchange, equilibrium and the core |
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269 | (10) |
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279 | (35) |
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279 | (1) |
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Pareto efficient resource allocation |
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279 | (10) |
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Welfare functions and the Pareto criterion |
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289 | (4) |
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Pareto efficiency and competitive markets |
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293 | (6) |
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299 | (6) |
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Arrow's impossibility theorem |
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305 | (9) |
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Market failure and government failure |
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314 | (32) |
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The causes of market failure |
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314 | (4) |
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Instances of market failure |
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318 | (17) |
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The theory of the second best |
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335 | (5) |
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Government action and government failure |
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340 | (6) |
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346 | (54) |
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346 | (2) |
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Game representation and solutions |
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348 | (14) |
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Games of imperfect and incomplete information |
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362 | (13) |
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375 | (2) |
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Cooperative bargaining games |
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377 | (8) |
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Bargaining as a non-cooperative game |
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385 | (7) |
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Delay and disagreement in bargaining |
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392 | (8) |
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400 | (46) |
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400 | (1) |
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401 | (16) |
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Oligopoly as a repeated game |
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417 | (16) |
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433 | (11) |
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444 | (2) |
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446 | (45) |
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446 | (1) |
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A formalization of `uncertainty' |
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447 | (2) |
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449 | (7) |
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Properties of the utility function |
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456 | (10) |
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Risk aversion and indifference curves |
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466 | (7) |
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473 | (10) |
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Comparative statics under uncertainty |
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483 | (8) |
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Production under uncertainty |
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491 | (16) |
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491 | (1) |
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Competitive firm under uncertainty |
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491 | (12) |
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Production with futures markets |
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503 | (4) |
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Insurance, risk spreading and pooling |
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507 | (46) |
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507 | (1) |
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507 | (7) |
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Incomplete insurance markets |
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514 | (6) |
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Risk spreading: the Arrow-Lind Theorem |
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520 | (5) |
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Risk pooling and diversification |
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525 | (5) |
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Asymmetric information in insurance markets: adverse selection |
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530 | (10) |
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Asymmetric information in insurance markets: moral hazard |
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540 | (13) |
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Agency, contract theory and the firm |
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553 | (49) |
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Critique of the classical theory of the firm |
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553 | (2) |
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Agency theory and the separation of ownership |
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555 | (13) |
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The moral hazard principal--agent model |
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568 | (11) |
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The adverse selection principal--agent model |
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579 | (23) |
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General equilibrium under uncertainty and incomplete markets |
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602 | (111) |
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602 | (2) |
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Complete markets in state contingent claims |
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604 | (10) |
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State-contingent commodities |
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614 | (13) |
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Efficiency with production |
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627 | (10) |
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637 | (11) |
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648 | (9) |
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The structure of an optimization problem |
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657 | (3) |
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Solutions to optimization problems |
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660 | (10) |
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670 | (2) |
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672 | (3) |
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675 | (2) |
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Interior and boundary optima |
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677 | (2) |
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Location of the optimum: the method of Lagrange |
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679 | (7) |
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Concave programming and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions |
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686 | (10) |
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Second-order conditions and comparative statics |
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696 | (12) |
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708 | (2) |
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710 | (2) |
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712 | (1) |
References and further reading |
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713 | (6) |
Bibliography |
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719 | (8) |
Index |
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