Optimization in economic theory - Hardcover

Dixit, Avinash K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198770820 ISBN 13: 9780198770824

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1976

Synopsis

A new edition of a student textbook. It gives a broad treatment of optimization methods, building on simple economic theory and elementary linear algebra and calculus, and reinforcing each new mathematical idea by relating it to its economics application.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This revised edition includes a new chapter on uncertainty, with applications to portfolio selection and the economics of information, and a fuller treatment of dynamic programming, with applications to search theory.The book is aimed at second and third year undergraduates taking macroeconomics courses with some quantitative content. It should also provide a simpler alternative to many postgraduate texts.

About the Author:

Avinash K. Dixit is at Princeton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0198770820
• ISBN 13: 9780198770824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134