Herbert Scarf's Contributions to Economics, Game Theory and Operations Research

Herbert Scarf is a distinguished economist and has made a number of extraordinarily significant contributions to economics, game theory and operations research. This work has generated a major research field in economics termed Applied General Equilibrium Analysis. This book comprises all his research articles and consists of four volumes.

Autorentext
Professor Zaifu Yang holds a chair in Economics at the University of York, UK. He has widely published in economics, game theory, operations research and applied mathematics. His articles have appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Mathematics of Operations Research, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization among other leading academic journals.

Inhalt
Preface; Zaifu Yang Ii 1. The Optimality of (S, S) Policies in the Dynamic Inventory Problem 2. Optimal Policies for a Multi-Echelon Inventory Problem 3. A Min-Max Solution of an Inventory Problem 4. Inventory Models of the Arrow-Harris-Marschak Type with Time Lag 5. Stationary Operating Characteristics of an Inventory Model with Time Lag 6. Inventory Models and Related Stochastic Processes 7. Approximate Solutions to a Simple Multi-Echelon Inventory Problem 8. Bayes Solutions of the Statistical Inventory Problem 9. A Survey of Analytic Techniques in Inventory Theory 10. Optimal Inventory Policies when Sales are Discretionary 11. The Shapes of Polyhedra 12. The Generalized Basis Reduction Algorithm 13. An Implementation of the Generalized Basis Reduction Algorithm for Integer Programming