Systemtheoretische Ansätze für die Untersuchung von Fragestellungen mit einer großen Anzahl von miteinander in Beziehung stehenden Einflussgrößen oder Variablen werden vorgestellt. Diese dergestalt verknüpften Größen werden auch als Netzwerke bezeichnet. Fokussiert wird auf die...

Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists’ engagements with other disciplines – e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

The objective of this paper is to propose an analytical framework to examine the foundations of the theory of efficient growth. The theory of efficient growth is a newly developed theory based on the principles of the neoclassical framework. It argues that an economy grows efficiently under two...

In the 1870s and 1880s, the scientist, logician, and pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce possessed an advanced knowledge of mathematical economics, having mastered and criticized Cournot as early as 1871. In 1884 he engaged in a multi-round debate with the editors of The Nation over the...

Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists' engagements with other disciplines - e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

This 150-page long book consists of 18 chapters and presents several dozens mathematical-economic models. One part consists of well-known models but the other models come from the author's research, mainly on pension economics. The book is written for readers who have a high-school education...

This volume is a monograph on the geometric structure of a certain class of ("comprehensive") compact polyhedra called Cephoids. A Cephoid is a Minkowski sum of finitely many standardized simplices. The emphasis rests on the Pareto surface of Cephoids which consists of certain translates of...