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2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Can Catastrophe Theory Become a New Tool in Understanding Singular Economies?
verfasst von : Elvio Accinelli, Martín Puchet Anyul
Erschienen in: New Tools of Economic Dynamics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The aim of this paper is to show that economic systems must be characterized by their possible singularities rather than by their regularities. Changes in parameters of a regular economy imply only small changes in the optimal choice of the agents, i.e. the economic system is structurally stable, and they are consistent with one another minor changes. But in a singular economy, small changes in parameters affect the choice of the agents in a relevant way. The equilibria, after and before the changes, are radically different states, i.e. the economic system is structurally unstable. Catastrophe theory and Morse theory are used here to characterize singular economies. These are classical theories in mathematics but nevertheless, they are new tools to help understand the behavior of an economic system. Also the approach of Negishi is followed, and this allows us to consider in a unified way economies with finitely or infinitely many goods.