This book is devoted to the study of two large classes of discrete-time optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics. Nonautonomous optimal control problems of the first class are determined by a sequence of objective functions and sequence of constraint maps. They correspond to a general model of economic growth. We are interested in turnpike properties of approximate solutions and in the stability of the turnpike phenomenon under small perturbations of objective functions and constraint maps. The second class of autonomous optimal control problems corresponds to another general class of models of economic dynamics which includes the RobinsonSolowSrinivasan model as a particular case.
In Chap. 1 we discuss turnpike properties for a large class of discrete-time optimal control problems studied in the literature and for the RobinsonSolowSrinivasan model. In Chap. 2 we introduce the first class of optimal control problems and study its turnpike property. This class of problems is also discussed in Chaps. 36. In Chap. 3 we study the stability of the turnpike phenomenon under small perturbations of the objective functions. Analogous results for problems with discounting are considered in Chap. 4. In Chap. 5 we study the stability of the turnpike phenomenon under small perturbations of the objective functions and the constraint maps. Analogous results for problems with discounting are established in Chap. 6. The results of Chaps. 5 and 6 are new. The second class of problems is studied in Chaps. 79. In Chap. 7 we study the turnpike properties. The stability of the turnpike phenomenon under small perturbations of the objective functions is established in Chap. 8. In Chap. 9 we establish the stability of the turnpike phenomenon under small perturbations of the objective functions and the constraint maps. The results of Chaps. 8 and 9 are new. In Chap. 10 we study optimal control problems related to a model of knowledge-based endogenous economic growth and show the existence of trajectories of unbounded economic growth and provide estimates for the growth rate.

Develops the turnpike theory for a new class of optimal control problems related to a general model of economic growth Expounds the turnpike theory for a new class of autonomous optimal control problems related to the RSS model Studies the stability of the turnpike phenomenon for the new classes of optimal control problems

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Alexander J. Zaslavski, is a senior researcher at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He was born in Ukraine in 1957 and got his PhD in Mathematical Analysis in 1983, The Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk. He is the author of 26 research monographs and more than 600 research papers and editor of more than 70 edited volumes and journal special issues. He is the Founding Editor and Editor-in Chief of the journal Pure and Applied Functional Analysis, and Editor-in-Chief of journal Communications in Optimization Theory. His area of research contains nonlinear functional analysis, control theory, optimization, calculus of variations, dynamical systems theory, game theory and mathematical economics.

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Preface-1. Introduction.- 2. Turnpike Conditions for Optimal Control Systems.- 3. Nonautonomous Problems with Perturbed Objective Functions.- 4. Nonautonomous Problems with Discounting.- 5. Stability of the Turnpike Phenomenon for Nonautonomous Problems.- 6. Stability of the Turnpike for Nonautonomous Problems with Discounting.- 7. Turnpike Properties for Autonomous Problems.- 8. Autonomous Problems with Perturbed Objective Functions.- 9. Stability Results for Autonomous Problems.- 10. Models with Unbounded Endogenous Economic Growth-Reference.- Index.

Inhalt
Preface-1. Introduction.- 2. Turnpike Conditions for Optimal Control Systems.- 3. Nonautonomous Problems with Perturbed Objective Functions.- 4. Nonautonomous Problems with Discounting.- 5. Stability of the Turnpike Phenomenon for Nonautonomous Problems.- 6. Stability of the Turnpike for Nonautonomous Problems with Discounting.- 7. Turnpike Properties for Autonomous Problems.- 8. Autonomous Problems with Perturbed Objective Functions.- 9. Stability Results for Autonomous Problems.- 10. Models with Unbounded Endogenous Economic Growth-Reference.- Index.