文档介绍：Economic Dynamics
Economic Dynamics
Theory putation
John Stachurski
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stachurski, John, 1969–
Economic dynamics : theory putation / John Stachurski.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-01277-5 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1. Statics and dynamics (Social sciences)—
Mathematical models. 2.
Economics—Mathematical models. I. Title.
2009
’519—dc22 2008035973
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Contents
Preface xiii
Common Symbols xvii
1 Introduction 1
I Introduction to Dynamics 9
2 Introduction to Programming 11
Basic Techniques 11
Algorithms 11
Coding: First Steps 14
Modules and Scripts 19
Flow Control 21
Program Design 25
User-Defined Functions 25
More Data Types 27
Object-Oriented Programming 29
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3 Analysis in Metric Space 35
A First Look at Metric Space 35
Distances and Norms 36
Sequences 38
Open Sets, Closed Sets 41
Further Properties 44
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Optimization, Equivalence 48
Fixed Points 51
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4 Introduction to Dynamics 55
Deterministic Dynamical Systems 55
The Basic Model 5