An Economic Interpretation of Linear Programming

Quirino Paris spent his entire academic career at the University of California, USA, earning a PhD from Berkeley in 1966 and seriving as Professor of Agricultural Economics at UC Davis from 1969. In 2011 he published a companion book titled Economic Foundations of Symmetric Programming. He is a Fellow of the American Applied Economic Association and of the European Association of Agricultural Economists.

1. Introduction to Linear Programming2. Primal and Dual LP Problems3. Setting Up LP Problems4. The Transportation and Transshipment Problems5. Spaces, Cones, Bases and Extreme Points6. Solving Systems of Equations7. Primal Simplex Algorithm: The Price-Taking Firm8. The Dual Simplex Algorithm9. Linear Programming and the Lagrangean Function10. The Artificial Variable Algorithm11. The Artificial Constraint Algorithm12. The Diet Problem Revisited13. Parametric Programming: Input Demand Functions14. Parametric Programming: Output Supply Functions15. Dealing with Multiple Optimal Solutions16. Solid Waste Management17. The Choice of Techniques in a Farm Production Model18. Cattle Ranch Management19. The Measurement of Technical and Economic Efficiency20. Decentralized Economic Planning21. Theorems of Linear Programming