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Valuation and Optimality in Exchange Economies with a Countable Number of Agents

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Positive Operators, Riesz Spaces, and Economics

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We present versions of the two fundamental welfare theorems of economics for exchange economies with a countable number of agents and an infinite dimensional commodity space. These results are then specialized to the overlapping generations model.

Research supported in part by NSF grant SES 88-21779

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Aliprantis, C.D., Brown, D.J., Burkinshaw, O. (1991). Valuation and Optimality in Exchange Economies with a Countable Number of Agents. In: Positive Operators, Riesz Spaces, and Economics. Studies in Economic Theory, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58199-1_1

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