Symmetry and Economic Invariance

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

2. Technical Progress and Economies of Scale: Concept of Holotheticity
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

3. Holothetic Production Functions and Marginal Rate of Technical Substitution
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

4. Utility and Demand
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

5. Duality and Self Duality
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

6. The Theory of Index Numbers
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

7. Dynamics and Conservation Laws
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

Part II. Recent Developments

8. The Invariance Principle and Income-Wealth Conservation Laws
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

9. Conservation Laws in Continuous and Discrete Models
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

10. Quantity or Quality: The Impact of Labour Saving Innovation on US and Japanese Growth Rates, 1960–2004
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

11. A Survey on Recent Developments
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

12. Appendix to Part II. Symmetry: An Overview of Geometric Methods in Economics
Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Economic Theory, Methodology and the History of Economic Thought, Game Theory/Mathematical Methods