Economics in a Changing World

Preface; A.B.Atkinson - Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Introduction; B.Allen - PART 1: PLENARY LECTURE - Profit Maximization and Economic Theory; B.Grodal - PART 2: RATIONALITY - Suppose Everybody Behaved Like That?; K.Binmore - Aggregation, Learning and Rationality; J-M.Grandmont - Discussion; A.Kirman - Evolution and Rationality: Some Recent Game-Theoretic Results; A.Banerjee & J.Weibull - Discussion; K.Binmore - PART 3: GAME THEORY, GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM AND INFORMATION - Implementation in Iteratively Undominated Strategies; D.Abreu - Mechanism Design with Incomplete Information; S.Srivastava - Issues and Results in general Equilibrium Theory; B.Allen - The Determinacy of Equilibria 25 Years Later; A.Mas-Colell - On the Value of Information; C.H.Papadimitriou -Theories of Optimal Capital Structure: A Managerial Perspective; O.Hart - PART 4: APPLICATIONS - Non-Hierarchical Aspects of the Internal Organization of the Enterprise: A Partial Survey in Comparative Perspective; M.Aoki - Discussion; J.McMillan - Patents as an Incentive System; S.Scotchmer - Empirical Studies of Product Markets; A.Kirman & L.Phlips - The Labour Supply of Lone Mothers in Denmark and the United Kingdom; N.Smith, I.Walker & N.Westergard-Nielsen - Competition and Cooperation Among Producers: Cournot Revisited; C.Schmidt - Index