Symmetry and economic invariance /
xi, 273 p. ; illustrations. - (Advances in Japanese business and economics ; 1) Content notes : 1. Introduction--
2. Technical progress and economies of scale: concept of holotheticity--
3. Holothetic production functions and marginal rate of technical substitution--
4. Utility and demand--
5. Duality and self duality--
6. The theory of index numbers--
7. Dynamics and conservation laws--
8. The invariance principle and income-wealth conservation laws--
9. Conservation laws in continuous and discrete models--
10. Quantity or quality: the impact of labour saving innovation on US and Japanese growth rates, 1960-2004--
11. A survey on recent developments--
12. Appendix to part II symmetry: an overview of geometric methods in economics--
References--
Index. Group theory. Lie groups.
