Mordecai Avriel is Director of Analytical Development at Bank Hapoalim in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Erwin Diewert is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan. Israel Zang is President of the Academic College of Tel Aviv Jaffa.
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Preface to the Classics edition; Preface; Corrections and comments; 1. Introduction; 2. Concavity; 3. Generalized concavity; 4. Application of generalized concavity to economics; 5. Special functional forms I: composite functions, products, and ratios; 6. Special functional forms II: quadratic functions; 7. Fractional programming; 8. Concave transformable functions; 9. Additional generalizations of concavity; Supplementary bibliography; Author index; Subject index.