TROPICAL GEOMETRY TO ANALYSE DEMAND

Duality techniques from convex geometry, extended by the recently-developed mathematics of tropical geometry, provide a powerful lens to study demand. We propose a new framework of \demand types", for categorising and understanding demand; our classication

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