Positive Operators, Riesz Spaces, and Economics

The volume contains the proceedings of a conference in ma-thematical economics held at the California Institute ofTechnology, April 16-20, 1990. The theme of the conferencewas to explore the functional analytic techniques (and inparticular the theory of Riesz spaces and positive opera-tors) that are employed in economics. The articles in thebook depict this important connection and open the way formore economic applications.