| Preface | p. xi |
| Statics and dynamics: some elementary concepts | p. 1 |
| A static problem | p. 1 |
| A discrete-time dynamic problem | p. 3 |
| A continuous-time dynamic problem | p. 7 |
| Flows and maps | p. 11 |
| Exercises | p. 19 |
| Review of linear systems | p. 22 |
| Introduction | p. 22 |
| General solutions of linear systems in continuous time | p. 25 |
| Continuous systems in the plane | p. 34 |
| General solutions of linear systems in discrete time | p. 43 |
| Discrete systems in the plane | p. 47 |
| An economic example | p. 52 |
| Phase diagrams | p. 56 |
| Exercises | p. 61 |
| Stability of fixed points | p. 66 |
| Some formal definitions of stability | p. 66 |
| The linear approximation | p. 71 |
| The second or direct method of Lyapunov | p. 76 |
| General economic equilibrium | p. 85 |
| Optimal economic growth | p. 92 |
| Manifolds and tangent spaces | p. 98 |
| Exercises | p. 99 |
| Invariant and attracting sets, periodic and quasiperiodic orbits | p. 104 |
| Invariant and limit sets | p. 105 |
| Stability and attractiveness of general sets | p. 110 |
| Attracting sets and attractors | p. 114 |
| Periodic orbits and their stability | p. 118 |
| Quasiperiodic orbits | p. 126 |
| Conservative and dissipative systems | p. 128 |
| Exercises | p. 130 |
| Local bifurcations | p. 133 |
| Introduction | p. 133 |
| Centre manifold theory | p. 134 |
| Local bifurcations for flows | p. 139 |
| Local bifurcations for maps | p. 151 |
| Bifurcations in two-dimensional maps | p. 160 |
| Exercises | p. 161 |
| Chaotic sets and chaotic attractors | p. 163 |
| Basic definitions | p. 164 |
| Symbolic dynamics and the shift map | p. 166 |
| Logistic map with [mu] [gt] 2 + [square root]5 | p. 171 |
| Smale horseshoe | p. 173 |
| Tent map and logistic map | p. 176 |
| Doubling maps | p. 178 |
| Chaotic attractors | p. 180 |
| The Lorenz model | p. 182 |
| Exercises | p. 189 |
| Characteristic exponents, fractals, homoclinic orbits | p. 193 |
| Lyapunov characteristic exponents | p. 193 |
| Fractal dimension | p. 198 |
| Horseshoes and homoclinic orbits | p. 204 |
| Exercises | p. 211 |
| Transition to chaos | p. 214 |
| Period-doubling route to chaos | p. 214 |
| Intermittency | p. 222 |
| Crises | p. 226 |
| Quasiperiodicity and chaos | p. 232 |
| Exercises | p. 235 |
| The ergodic approach | p. 237 |
| Ergodic measures | p. 238 |
| Lyapunov characteristic exponents revisited | p. 247 |
| Natural, absolutely continuous, SBR measures | p. 249 |
| Attractors as invariant measures | p. 252 |
| Predictability, entropy | p. 253 |
| Isomorphism | p. 260 |
| Aperiodic and chaotic dynamics | p. 261 |
| Mixing | p. 265 |
| Shannon's entropy and Khinchin's axioms | p. 267 |
| Exercises | p. 268 |
| Deterministic systems and stochastic processes | p. 270 |
| Bernoulli dynamics | p. 270 |
| Markov shifts | p. 276 |
| [alpha]-congruence | p. 277 |
| Further reading | p. 282 |
| Bibliography | p. 287 |
| Subject index | p. 295 |
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