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This book brings together in a single coherent framework a research programme begun by the author over 40 years ago. The main model around which the analysis is built is Hicksian in character having been drawn in large part from John Hicks Value and Capital. The model is extended so as to include money and securities. In respect of the theory of the firm the model focuses on demand and supply plans, on inputs and outputs, on inventories, and on the dependencies between them. The stability of temporary equilibrium is discussed for linear and non-linear cases. Because the concept of structural stability is important for understanding non-linear cases, it is defined and applied to the case of economic motion generated from the temporary equilibrium analysis. The addenda focus on developments in economic theory following the publication of the main model.
List of contents
1. The method of economic analysis; 2. Households' and firms' economic behaviour; 3. Stability conditions for temporary equilibrium: the linear case; 4. Stability conditions for temporary equilibrium: the non-linear case; 5. Comparative dynamics; Appendices; Mathematical notes.
Summary
This book brings together in a single coherent framework a research programme begun by the author in the forties. It develops multi-sector general equilibrium theory in the tradition of Hicks's Value and Capital, and extends the prototype model so as to accommodate the monetary sector as well as production and consumption.
