Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Chapter 1. Comparative statics and the paradigm of economics -- Chapter 2. Review of calculus (one variable) -- Chapter 3. Functions of several variables -- Chapter 4. Unconstrained maxima and minima : two independent variables -- Chapter 5. Matrices and determinants -- Chapter 6. Constrained and unconstrained maxima and minima of functions of several variables -- Chapter 7. The derivation of cost functions -- Chapter 8. The derivation of consumers' demand functions -- Chapter 9. The comparative statics of maximization models -- Chapter 10. Cost and production functions : special topics -- Chapter 11. Special topics in consumer theory -- Chapter 12. Maximization with inequality and nonnegativity constraints -- Chapter 13. General equilibrium I : Linear models -- Chapter 14. General equilibrium II : nonlinear models -- Chapter 15. Welfare economics -- Chapter 16. Equilibrium, disequilibrium, and the stability of markets