concretely many problems amenable analytical formulaic solution many others may sufficiently complex require numerical methods solution aided software ref name schmedders still others complex tractable enough allow computable methods solution particular computable general equilibrium models entire economy linear nonlinear programming profoundly affected microeconomics earlier considered equality constraints many mathematical economists received nobel prizes economics conducted notable research using linear programming leonid kantorovich leonid hurwicz tjalling koopmans kenneth j arrow robert dorfman paul samuelson robert solow
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