scientific article; zbMATH DE number 19665

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0734.00037.] The existence of a competitive equilibrium is proved in an exchange economy with a finite number of consumers but with an infinite number of commodities. The commodity space is \(L_ \infty\), that is, a commodity bundle is given by an infinite sequence of numbers. Prices are sequences in the space \(L_ 1\), the dual space of \(L_ \infty\). The main special assumption to be made about preferences is that the preference relation is continuous in terms of the Mackey topology. It is first proved that the set of Pareto optima is not empty. Then it is proved that the set of Pareto optima must contain a competitive equilibrium, by showing that for some Pareto optimum, at the associated price, the value of each consumer's consumption equals the value of his resource.




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