Microeconomics and operations research: Their interactions and differences

摘要

Dear Colleagues, this is not going to be a very formal lecture, I doubt that you are prepared to go through the latest discussions about the mathematical considerations for the long term discount rate, a very real problem, applicable to climate change. On this occasion, I would be rather reminiscent of the different strands indicated in my title, as exemplified in my career, so I will be alternating between evolutionary development in the two fields and a certain amount of autobiography, letting one illustrate the other, I hope. Since this lecture is so much about me, I loom more importantly in some of these matters in this talk than I did in reality.