Abstract
This chapter presents an introduction to the economic activity of the exchange of commodities. It presents an example in which two individual, Ada and Bill, are considered, each of whom possess quantities of two goods, bread and wine. Between them they have three loaves of bread and three bottles of wine. Improving by cooperation (Edgeworth) involves the idea that individuals independently or cooperatively may be able to improve upon redistributions of goods. This simple idea leads to certain redistributions being acceptable as solutions to the exchange problems. The core of an exchange economy is that set of allocations that can be improved upon by no coalition of individuals.
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