Abstract
The paper surveys some recent contributions to the analysis of pseudomonotone maps and their application to economics. It is shown that the concept of pseudomonotonicity is strongly related to a notion of rationality of consumer behaviour which is well known in economics as a weak version of the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference. In economic models of general equilibrium, a pseudomonotone aggregate excess demand function is seen to guarantee convexity of the set of price equilibria and, in the case of so-called regular economies, even the uniqueness of equilibrium. Some general characterizations of differentiable pseudomonotone maps, which reduce to necessary and sufficient first order conditions under the assumption of regularity, are provided. These conditions are employed in order to prove pseudomonotonicity of aggregate excess demand in economies displaying a particular kind of heterogeneous consumer behaviour.
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