Phase Diagram for Roegenian Economics

We recall the similarities between the concepts and techniques of Thermodynamics and Roegenian Economics. The Phase Diagram for a Roegenian economic system highlights a triple point and a critical point, with related explanations. These ideas can be used to improve our knowledge and understanding of the nature of development and evolution of Roegenian economic systems.Comment: 10 page

Bilevel Disjunctive Optimization on Affine Manifolds

Bilevel optimization is a special kind of optimization where one problem is embedded within another. The outer optimization task is commonly referred to as the upper-level optimization task, and the inner optimization task is commonly referred to as the lower-level optimization task. These problems involve two kinds of variables: upper-level variables and lower-level variables. Bilevel optimization was first realized in the field of game theory by a German economist von Stackelberg who published a book (1934) that described this hierarchical problem. Now the bilevel optimization problems are commonly found in a number of real-world problems: transportation, economics, decision science, business, engineering, and so on. In this chapter, we provide a general formulation for bilevel disjunctive optimization problem on affine manifolds. These problems contain two levels of optimization tasks where one optimization task is nested within the other. The outer optimization problem is commonly referred to as the leaders (upper level) optimization problem and the inner optimization problem is known as the followers (or lower level) optimization problem. The two levels have their own objectives and constraints. Topics affine convex functions, optimizations with auto-parallel restrictions, affine convexity of posynomial functions, bilevel disjunctive problem and algorithm, models of bilevel disjunctive programming problems, and properties of minimum functions

The least-curvature principle of Gauss and Hertz and geometric dynamics

9789606766763International audienceThis paper shows how we can study real life problems in economics, biology and engineering with tools from differential geometry. Section 1 emphasizes the S-shaped time evolutions and underlines that the torse forming vector field reflects economical phenomena. Section 2 analyzes the geometric dynamics on infinite dimensional Riemannian manifolds produced by first order ODEs and the Euclidean metric. Section 3 introduces and studies a least-curvature principle. Section 4 defines and studies the geometric dynamics on infinite dimensional Riemannian manifolds produced by second order ODEs and by the Euclidean metric. Section 5 analyzes the least-curvature principle of Gauss and Hertz in a general setting. Section 6 explores the controllability of the neoclassical growth geometric dynamics and underlines that the theory can be extended to infinite dimensional manifolds. Section 7 contains conclusions

Geometric Dynamics on Riemannian Manifolds

The purpose of this paper is threefold: (i) to highlight the second order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) as generated by flows and Riemannian metrics (decomposable single-time dynamics); (ii) to analyze the second order partial differential equations (PDEs) as generated by multi-time flows and pairs of Riemannian metrics (decomposable multi-time dynamics); (iii) to emphasise second order PDEs as generated by m-distributions and pairs of Riemannian metrics (decomposable multi-time dynamics). We detail five significant decomposed dynamics: (i) the motion of the four outer planets relative to the sun fixed by a Hamiltonian, (ii) the motion in a closed Newmann economical system fixed by a Hamiltonian, (iii) electromagnetic geometric dynamics, (iv) Bessel motion generated by a flow together with an Euclidean metric (created motion), (v) sinh-Gordon bi-time motion generated by a bi-flow and two Euclidean metrics (created motion). Our analysis is based on some least squares Lagrangians and shows that there are dynamics that can be split into flows and motions transversal to the flows

Information Geometry in Roegenian Economics

We characterise the geometry of the statistical Roegenian manifold that arises from the equilibrium distribution of an income of noninteracting identical economic actors. The main results for ideal income are included in three subsections: partition function in distribution, scalar curvature, and geodesics. Although this system displays no phase transition, its analysis provides an enlightening contrast with the results of Van der Waals Income in Roegenian Economics, where we shall examine the geometry of the economic Van der Waals income, which does exhibit a “monetary policy as liquidity—income” transition. Here we focus on three subsections: canonical partition function, economic limit, and information geometry of the economic Van der Waals manifold