Introduction

The advanced folio quotes the adage of J. Willard Gibbs: "Mathematics is a language." The book begins with this burdensome statement:

The actuality of analogies amid axial appearance of assorted theories implies the actuality of a accepted approach which underlies the accurate theories and unifies them with account to those axial features. This axiological assumption of generalization by absorption was audible by the eminent American mathematician E. H. Moore added than thirty years ago. It is the purpose of the pages that chase to assignment out its implications for abstract and activated economics.

Its added declared purpose (p. 3) is to appearance how operationally allusive theorems can be declared with a baby basal of akin methods. Thus, "a accepted approach of bread-and-butter theories" (1983, p. xxvi).

edit Topical outline

The anatomy of the book is 353 pages. Topics and applications covered (all in agreement of theory) accommodate the following.

Part I

introduction

calm systems (such as for a bazaar or economy)

maximizing behavior (such as to profits by a close and account by a consumer) in the calculus

sales-tax access on calm for a firm

allusive statics (changes in prices and quantities and added calm variables back basal altitude change)

amount and production

consumer's behavior

transformations, elasticities, blended commodities, basis numbers, and rationing

basal utility, abidingness of the bordering account of income, and consumer's surplus

abundance economics

Part II

adherence of calm systems, dynamics (disturbances in equilibrium), and allusive statics

the Keynesian system

beeline and nonlinear systems

Malthusian and optimum population

dynamics

the business cycle

autogenous models

alloyed exogenous-endogenous theories

alloyed systems of a linear-stochastic type

abstracts (on neoclassical approach from Walras to hints of the approaching in allusive dynamics, the comparative-statics analogue of activating systems)