predictive content of the traditional theory of competitive supply. A number of key results in the deterministic theory follow as … predictive content of the classical theory of competitive firm behavior from its a priori roots in profit maximization, while … subsuming the traditional theory as a special case. -- Supply aggregation ; stochastic supply function ; stochastic consistency …

economics. Meta-economic principles are different from laws; they relate to the principles of theory construction, to the … assumptions which are implicit in theory, to the constraints imposed on theories and to the analysis and scope of theories. We … theory, we consider a number of articles from the Journal of Political Economy. The testability of meta-economic principles …

approach explaining socio-economic behaviour. -- economic decision-making ; rational choice theory ; personality ; implicit …

, authoritative statements of fact, output and outcome are taken up in turn. Definitions rely on mathematical set theory, and on basic …