We show a range of complexity results for the Ricardo and Heckscher-Ohlin models of international trade (as Arrow-Debreu production markets). For both models, we show three types of results: 1. When utility functions are Leontief and production functions are linear, it is NP-hard to decide if a market has an equilibrium. 2. When utility functions and production functions are linear, equilibria ...
Set against previous attempts to grasp the work of British political economist David Ricardo on a theoretical and methodological level, this article explores the emergence of the ‘economy’ in Ricardo’s Principles of political economy and taxation (1817) from a Foucaultinspired perspective on the formation of objects of knowledge. Several distinctions (or ‘discursive demarcations’) are brought t...
In 1996, Ricardo Ricardo Mañé discovered that Mather measures are in fact the minimizers of a ”universal” infinite dimensional linear programming problem. This fundamental result has many applications, one of the most important is to the estimates of the generic number of Mather measures. Mañé obtained the first estimation of that sort by using finite dimensional approximations. Recently, we we...
