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On Intertemporal Preferences in Continuous Time: The Case of Certainty (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Chi-Fu Huang

 
9780656401871: On Intertemporal Preferences in Continuous Time: The Case of Certainty (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Rethinking how we model choices over time

This book examines how people value consumption spread across time and why standard models may miss important details. It introduces alternative topologies on the space of lifetime consumption and shows how these choices affect continuity, stability, and the possibility of clean economic representations.

  • Learn how different mathematical topologies change when preferences over time remain continuous and uniformly well-behaved.
  • See why the traditional model can fail to approximate real consumption patterns like gulping or irregular bursts of intake.
  • Explore how norm-based topologies can produce uniform properties that align with economic intuition and allow reliable numerical representations.
  • Understand how these ideas connect to equilibrium analysis and extended models with uncertainty and time resolution.
Ideal for readers interested in the mathematics of intertemporal choice, continuous-time economics, and the foundations of dynamic preferences.

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