mathematical economic theory
11Theory of the firm — The theory of the firm consists of a number of economic theories that describe the nature of the firm, company, or corporation, including its existence, behavior, structure, and relationship to the market.[1] Contents 1 Overview 2 Background …
12Theory of Games and Economic Behavior — Infobox Book name = Theory of Games and Economic Behavior image caption = 60th anniversary edition, 2004 author = John von Neumann, nowrap|Oskar Morgenstern country = United States language = English subject = Game theory genre = Science… …
13Mathematical finance — is a field of applied mathematics, concerned with financial markets. The subject has a close relationship with the discipline of financial economics, which is concerned with much of the underlying theory. Generally, mathematical finance will… …
14Economic shortage — is a term describing a disparity between the amount demanded for a product or service and the amount supplied in a market. Specifically, a shortage occurs when there is excess demand; therefore, it is the opposite of a surplus. Economic shortages …
15Economic sociology — is the sociological analysis of economic phenomena. As the earliest economists recognised, economic institutions are of profound importance to society as a whole and the social context affects the nature of local economic institutions. Karl Marx… …
16Economic interdependence — is a consequence of specialization, or the division of labor, and is almost universal. It was described as early as 1828, when A. A. Cournot wrote: : but in reality the economic system is a whole of which the parts are connected and react on each …
17Mathematical model — Not to be confused with the same term that is used in model theory, a branch of mathematical logic. An artifact that is used to illustrate a mathematical idea may also be called a mathematical model, the usage of which is the reverse of the sense …
18economic planning — Use of government to make economic decisions with respect to the use of resources. In communist countries with a state planning apparatus, detailed and rigid planning results in a command economy; land, capital, and the means of production are… …
19Theory of conjoint measurement — The theory of conjoint measurement (also known as conjoint measurement or additive conjoint measurement) is a general, formal theory of continuous quantity. It was independently discovered by the French economist Gerard Debreu (1960) and by the… …
20Theory of computation — In theoretical computer science, the theory of computation is the branch that deals with whether and how efficiently problems can be solved on a model of computation, using an algorithm. The field is divided into three major branches: automata… …
