1958 Linear Programming and Economic Analysis

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. A collaboration between three distinguished economists at Harvard University and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With chapters on: the basic concepts of linear programming, the transportation problem, nonlinear programming, efficient programs of capital accumulation, and interrelations between linear programming and game theory. Written by Robert Dorfman, a professor of political economy at Harvard University who made great contributions to the fields of economics, statistics, group testing and in the process of coding theory, Paul A Samuelson, an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and Robert M. Solow, an American economist whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him.