Lattice-Theoretic Foundations of the Consumer's Problem

Leonard Mirman and Richard Ruble

No 02-07, Discussion Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper provides an introduction to and discussion of the application of lattice-theoretic methods to classic problems in consumer theory. General characterizations of income effects with two goods, and with an arbitrary number of goods, as well as examples of comparative statics over densities and consumer types are also presented.

Keywords: consumer's problem; income effects; lattice programming; super-extremal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C00 D11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2002-09
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