From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities: Volume I: Mathematics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Finance

by J. Barkley Rosser Jr.

Book Overview

From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities presents and unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos theory, synergetics, and fractal geometry. The spread of such approaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792377702
• ISBN13: 9780792377702
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"