Application of Linear Programming to the Theory of the Firm. Including an Analysis of Monopolistic Firms by Non-Linear Programming.

DORFMAN, Robert:

Published by Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951., 1951

About this Item

Herbert A. Simon's copy of the First Edition, with his signature. ix, 98 pp. Original cloth. Some pencil checks in bibliography, probably by Simon. Else Very Good+, in torn dust jacket. 'Nobel laureate Robert M. Solow . . . co-authored with Dorfman and economist Paul A. Samuelson the groundbreaking work 'Linear Programming and Economic Analysis' (1958) . . . Dorfman's textbook, 'Application of Linear Programming to the Theory of the Firm' (1951), which Solow describes as 'compact and crystal clear,' set forth business applications for these theoretical approaches' (Harvard Gazette obituary of Dorfman; please ask for on-line source). Dorfman and Simon were each invited to lecture in the prestigious Werner Sichel Economics Lecture-Seminar Series held by the Department of Economics Western Michigan University; Dorfman in 1982-83 (as part of a session called Applied Economics: Private and Public Decision-Making), Simon in 1988-89 (for The State of Economic Science: The View of Six Nobel Laureates, which also included Kenneth Arrow, Solow Lawrence Klein, James Tobin and James Buchanan).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Application of Linear Programming to the Theory of the Firm. Including an Analysis of Monopolistic Firms by Non-Linear Programming.
• Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951.
• Publication Date: 1951
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good