Authors: M Ali Khan
Publish Date: 2012/10/05
Volume: 108, Issue: 2, Pages: 203-205
Abstract
Yves Balasko is a mathematical economists’ mathematical economist and to move away from the coined cliché a widelyacknowledged expert in a form of economic expression informed by the field of differential topology This is to say topology considered from the point of view of the differential calculus a vernacular that formalizes smooth mappings defined on locally Euclidean or Banach spaces and develops theorems for measures of their set of turning points And to be sure in keeping with the noun rather than its adjective a mathematical economist is in the first place an economist and with Balasko’s economics one cannot but associate elegance parsimony simplicity and resulting profundity This is of course in keeping with the work of the three economists of an earlier generation from whom he draws his inspiration Debreu on the one hand and Hicks and Samuelson on the other And going back to an even earlier generation Balasko’s economics as those of Mill and Marshall
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