Background
Katzner, Donald Wahl was born on February 2, 1938 in Baltimore. Son of J. Benjamin and Sylvia M. (Wahl) Katzner.
(In plying their trade, social scientists often are confro...)
In plying their trade, social scientists often are confronted with significant phenomena that appear incapable of measurement. Past practice would suggest that the way to deal with these cases is to work harder at finding appropriate measures so that standard quantitative analysis can still be applied. Professor Katzner's approach, however is quite different. Rather than concentrating on the construction of measures, he raises the question of how such phenomena can be investigated and understood in the absence of numerical gauges to represent them.
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In this carefully articulated investigation of the Walrasian general equilibrium model, the author sets forth one perception or explanation of how the microeconomy might operate. The focus is primarily on the behavior of individual consumers, firms and markets under perfectly competitive conditions and on the simultaneous interactions that occur among them. Central to his argument is that all of these elements fit together to form a unified whole for a complete, consistent, and cohesive picture of the perfectly competitive microeconomy. This book provides substantial discussion of the model's methodological background; returns to scale; the transformation surface and the fixed-factor-supply economy; existence, uniqueness, and stability of equilibria; the dynamics of market adjustments; methodological individualism and the theory of price determination; imperfectly competitive markets; welfare economics; and, the role of money capital in the operation of the firm.The author suggests that the abandonment of general equilibrium theory by microeconomists is a mistake, and that it is too soon to give up on the possibility of constructing an adequate analysis of uniqueness, global stability, and price determination. Students and scholars of economics will find much of interest in this thorough exploration of the operation of the microeconomy.
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( Articulates the traditional vision of the microeconomy ...)
Articulates the traditional vision of the microeconomy using a general equilibrium model
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Katzner, Donald Wahl was born on February 2, 1938 in Baltimore. Son of J. Benjamin and Sylvia M. (Wahl) Katzner.
Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics), Oberlin College, 1959. Master of Arts (Mathematics), Doctor of Philosophy University Minnesota, 1962, 1965.
Assistant professor economics University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965-1971. Associate professor economics University Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), 1970-1971, professor, 1971-1973. Lecturer University California, San Diego, 1973-1975.
Professor economics University Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1975, chairman department, 1976-1981. Visiting professor Osaka (Japan) University, 1967-1968, 93. Visiting scholar Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1981-1982.
Invited professor University Paris I, 1989. Science council member summer school economic University Economic, Poznan, Poland, since 1992.
(In this carefully articulated investigation of the Walras...)
(In plying their trade, social scientists often are confro...)
( Articulates the traditional vision of the microeconomy ...)
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Early work was concerned with the organisation, unification and extension of the theory of demand. Subsequent efforts have branched off in two directions. On one hand the early work was continued in the area of microeconomic, general equilibrium.
On the other, a methodology was developed to enable scientists to deal with (i.e. construct and empirically test models of) phenomena in which the variables involved seem incapable of measurement. Rather than attempting to ‘quantify the unquantifiable’, the question of how such phenomena can be understood and analysed in the absence of numerical gauges was investigated. This methodology was then applied in examining a variety of specific problems in economics, political science and sociology.
Member American Economic Association, Econometric Society, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Ruth Anna Bellows, April 6, l967. Children: Todd E., Brett A.