Ryuzo Sato, C.V. Starr Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Japan-US Business and Economic Studies, Leonard Stern School of Business, New York University, US

'Not until economists have given his impressive treatise a thorough reading shall we be in a position to put useful bounds on the value added to economics by this powerful and elegant technique. The ball is now in our court.'

• Contents: Preface 1. An Overview 2. Holotheticity of a Technology 3. A Theory of Endogenous Technical Progress 4. “G-Neutral” Technical Change, Comparative Statics, and Integrability Conditions 5. Holotheticity of an Implicit Technology 6. Self-Dual Preferences and Technologies 7. Dynamic Symmetries and Economic Conservation Laws 8. A Lie Group Approach to the Index Number Problems 9. The Group Structure and the Theory of Observable Market Behavior Appendix: A Brief Survey of Lie’s Theory of Continuous Transformation Groups Index

Ryuzo Sato, C.V. Starr Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Japan-US Business and Economic Studies, Leonard Stern School of Business, New York University, US

'Not until economists have given his impressive treatise a thorough reading shall we be in a position to put useful bounds on the value added to economics by this powerful and elegant technique. The ball is now in our court.'

• Contents: Preface 1. An Overview 2. Holotheticity of a Technology 3. A Theory of Endogenous Technical Progress 4. “G-Neutral” Technical Change, Comparative Statics, and Integrability Conditions 5. Holotheticity of an Implicit Technology 6. Self-Dual Preferences and Technologies 7. Dynamic Symmetries and Economic Conservation Laws 8. A Lie Group Approach to the Index Number Problems 9. The Group Structure and the Theory of Observable Market Behavior Appendix: A Brief Survey of Lie’s Theory of Continuous Transformation Groups Index

Ryuzo Sato, C.V. Starr Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Japan-US Business and Economic Studies, Leonard Stern School of Business, New York University, US

'Not until economists have given his impressive treatise a thorough reading shall we be in a position to put useful bounds on the value added to economics by this powerful and elegant technique. The ball is now in our court.'

• Contents: Preface 1. An Overview 2. Holotheticity of a Technology 3. A Theory of Endogenous Technical Progress 4. “G-Neutral” Technical Change, Comparative Statics, and Integrability Conditions 5. Holotheticity of an Implicit Technology 6. Self-Dual Preferences and Technologies 7. Dynamic Symmetries and Economic Conservation Laws 8. A Lie Group Approach to the Index Number Problems 9. The Group Structure and the Theory of Observable Market Behavior Appendix: A Brief Survey of Lie’s Theory of Continuous Transformation Groups Index