"New tools of economic dynamics" gives an introduction and overview of recently developed methods and tools, most of them developed outside economics, to deal with the qualitative analysis of economic dynamics. It reports the results of a three years research project of a European and Latin...

New Tools of Economic Dynamics gives an introduction and overview of recently developed methods and tools, most of them developed outside economics, to deal with the qualitative analysis of economic dynamics. It reports the results of a three-year research project by a European and Latin...

In this paper we show that in a pure exchange economy where social weights and total resources are fixed there is no possibility to improve the social welfare by means of efficient reallocations of the resources. However, if social weights are not fixed but can be selected from a particular set,...