The purpose of this study is to analyse the genesis and the evolution of the econom­ ics of shortage in Janos Kornai's writings from 1980 (the date of publication of Economics of Shortage) up to 1996 (the date of publication of the trench edition of The Socialist System, the Political Economy...

This manuscript provides a discussion of some key concepts of neoclassical microeconomics focusing on consumer theory. The work is organized into three chapters. In the first chapter, we conduct a broad discussion on the notion of consumer preference and its translation in terms of utility...