Includes bibliographical references and index

Prefaces -- Part 1. Analytical tools of optimization -- 1. Optimization and an example from inventory analysis -- 2. Some elementary mathematics -- 3. Marginal analysis -- 4. Maximization, minimization, and elementary differential calculus -- 5. Linear programming -- 6. Duality -- 7. Nonlinear programming -- 8. Kuhn-Tucker methods -- Part 2. Demand and production theory -- 9. Demand curves, utility surfaces and indifference maps -- 10. On empirical determination of demand relationships -- 11. Production and cost -- 12. Linear programming and the theory of production -- 13. Comparative statics and maximization : consumers and firms -- 14. Towards observability : revealed preference and expenditure and cost functions -- Part 3. Firms, Games and decisions -- 15. the firm and its objectives -- 16. Market structure, pricing, and output -- 17. Neumann-Morgenstern utility theory -- 18. Game theory -- 19. Decision theory -- Part 4. General equilibrium, welfare and distribution -- 20. General equilibrium and the theory of money -- 21. General equilibrium and welfare economics -- 22. Input-output analysis -- 23. Activity analysis and general equilibrium -- 24. Theory of distribution -- 25. Capital and investment decisions -- 26. Capital and distribution theory -- Answers to problems