The volume contains the proceedings of a conference in ma- thematical economics held at the California Institute of Technology, April 16-20, 1990.The theme of the conference was to explore the functional analytic techniques (and in particular the theory of Riesz spaces and positive opera- tors)...

This book is intended for the student or researcher who could benefit from functional analytic methods, but who does not have an extensive background and does not plan to make a career as a functional analyst. It develops topology, convexity, Banach lattices, integration, correspondences...