Economic equilibrium: Optimality and price decentralization

Positivity

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 205-241

  Aliprantis, C D ^a   Cornet, B ^b   Tourky, R ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equilibrium; Marginal cost pricing; Normal cone; Ordered vector space; Pareto optimum; Properness; Riesz Kantorovich formula; Separation theorem; Supporting price; Vector lattice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141789861     PISSN: 13851292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020240410066     Document Type: Review

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