Ebook: Time and Money: How Long and How Much Money is Needed to Regulate a Viable Economy
Author: Jean-Pierre Aubin (auth.)
- Tags: Economic Theory, Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control, Optimization, Socio- and Econophysics Population and Evolutionary Models, Complex Systems, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics
- Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 670
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This authored monograph presents an unconventional approach to an important topic in economic theory. The author is an expert in the field of viability theory and applies this theory to analyze how an economy should be dynamically endowed so that it is economically viable. Economic viability requires an assumption on the joint evolution of transactions, fluctuations of prices and units of numeraire goods: the sum of the “transactions values” and the “impact of price fluctuations” should be negative or equal to zero. The book presents a computation of the minimum endowment which restores economic viability and derives the dynamic laws that regulate both transactions and price fluctuations.
The target audience primarily comprises open-minded and mathematically interested economists but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
This authored monograph presents an unconventional approach to an important topic in economic theory. The author is an expert in the field of viability theory which was motivated by economics at the end of the 1970's (see Dynamic Economic Theory: a Viability Approach, Springer, (1996). It is used here to analyze how an economy should be dynamically endowed so that it is economically viable.
Economic viability requires an assumption on the joint evolution of commodities transactions, fluctuations of prices and numeraire units: the sum of the “transactions values” and the “impact of price fluctuations” should be negative or equal to zero. The book presents a computation of the minimum endowment which restores economic viability and derives the dynamic laws that regulate both transactions and price fluctuations.
The target audience primarily comprises open-minded and mathematically interested economists but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
This authored monograph presents an unconventional approach to an important topic in economic theory. The author is an expert in the field of viability theory which was motivated by economics at the end of the 1970's (see Dynamic Economic Theory: a Viability Approach, Springer, (1996). It is used here to analyze how an economy should be dynamically endowed so that it is economically viable.
Economic viability requires an assumption on the joint evolution of commodities transactions, fluctuations of prices and numeraire units: the sum of the “transactions values” and the “impact of price fluctuations” should be negative or equal to zero. The book presents a computation of the minimum endowment which restores economic viability and derives the dynamic laws that regulate both transactions and price fluctuations.
The target audience primarily comprises open-minded and mathematically interested economists but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The Underlying Thesis....Pages 1-29
How Long and How Much Endowing One Commodity....Pages 31-45
Keeping the Endowment Above a Viability Threshold....Pages 47-55
Uncertain Endowments and Economic Cycles....Pages 57-66
Evolutions and Their Temporal Windows....Pages 67-83
Endowing Fundamental Values: Willingness to Pay....Pages 85-104
Endowing Exchange Values: Adam Smith’s Invisible Man....Pages 105-117
Why Viability Theory?....Pages 119-126
What Is to Be Done?....Pages 127-131
Back Matter....Pages 133-144