An integrability condition with applications to utility theory and thermodynamics

DOI10.1016/0304-4068(79)90019-3zbMath0411.35017OpenAlexW1976068206MaRDI QIDQ1259764

Marcel K. Richter, Leonid Hurwicz

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54837

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamicsintegrability conditionnonlinear partial differential equationsequilibrium analysisFrobenius conditionalternative criterionconsumer choice theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Economic growth models (91B62) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Qualitative properties of solutions to partial differential equations (35B99)

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Cites Work

• Smooth Preferences: A Corrigendum
• Ville Axioms and Consumer Theory
• Econometrics and Thermodynamics: A Remark on Davis' Theory of Budgets
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