TY - BOOK AU - Debreu, Gerard. TI - Theory of value : : an axiomatic analysis of economic equilibrium SN - 0300015585 U1 - 330.16 PY - 1959/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Prices. KW - Value KW - Equilibrium--Economics N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references: p. 103-107 N2 - The two central problems of the theory that this monograph presents are (1) the explanation of the prices of commodities resulting from the interaction of the agents of a private ownership economy through markets, (2) the explanation of the role of prices in an optimal state of an economy. The analysis is therefore organized around the concept of a price system or, more generally, of a value function defined on the commodity space ER -