Lectures In The Microeconomics Of Choice: Foundations, Consumers, And Producers: 14 (World Scientific Lecture Notes In Economics And Policy)

William David Anthony (Tony) Bryant is an Honorary Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Macquarie University. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Western Sydney, and after a short period working in the Commonwealth Department of Minerals and Energy in Canberra, he moved into academia, where he has worked happily ever since. He has had visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Cambridge University, XLRI, and Sydney University, among other places. His main research interests are in Microeconomics, General Equilibrium Theory, and game theory.

Professor Bryant has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and research reports in Microeconomics, General Equilibrium Theory, and related areas, including a recently edited volume titled Computable General Equilibrium Models (World Scientific) and a review of Economy Wide Modelling of Water in CGE Models (Oxford University Press). Recently, in a joint work with Edwin Franks, he has discovered, and published in Economics Letters, an interesting set of new necessary and sufficient conditions under which the Law of Demand holds. This work is part of an extensive and ongoing research program aimed at understanding the foundations of General Equilibrium Theory.

Professor Bryant's book, General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence (World Scientific, 2010), was very favorably reviewed in Zentralblatt MATH, has been influential with research workers, and is highly cited in the literature. This monograph contains a careful and extended investigation of the foundations of general equilibrium. It turns up surprising and compelling conclusions about conditions necessary for general equilibrium.

Professor Bryant's teaching ― particularly of advanced undergraduate and graduate students ― regularly receives high praise for its breadth, clarity, rigor, and its ability to educate and deeply inform.