Graciela Chichilnisky Bücher

Focusing on trade and development, the book addresses key global issues such as rapid growth in the Third World, sustained expansion in industrial nations, and the elimination of extreme poverty and inequality. It is divided into four parts: the first three analyze the world economy and major trade issues, while the fourth offers a foundational understanding of the results through formal models. The descriptive analysis emphasizes market behavior and the interaction between domestic policies and international markets, highlighting the importance of market responses to policy decisions.

Focusing on the mathematical study of preference spaces, this work employs differential topology and global analysis to explore local and global properties relevant to general equilibrium and utility analysis. It builds on Gerard Debreu's foundational approach, demonstrating that smooth preference spaces can be represented as differentiable Hilbert manifolds. The text extends key results regarding equilibrium regularity and examines topological properties of these manifolds, providing insights into agent utilities and demands while suggesting new research avenues in economics and mathematics.

This is the first book combining research on the Global Environment, Catastrophic Risks and Economic Theory and Policy. Modern economic theory originated in the middle of the twentieth century when industrial expansion coupled with population growth led to a voracious use of natural resources and global environmental concerns. It is uncontested that, for the first time in recorded history, humans dominate the planet, changing the planet's atmosphere, its bodies of water, and the complex web of species that makes life on earth. This radical change in circumstances led to rethinking of the foundations of human organization and, in particular, the industrial economy and the economic theory behind it. This book brings together new approaches on multiple levels: environmental sustainability requires rethinking in terms of economic theory and policy as well as the considerations of catastrophic risk and extremal events. Leading experts address questions of economic governance, risk management, policy decision making and distribution across time and space.