Product Description

This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year PhD course in mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained, rigorous treatment of most of the concepts and techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in micro and macroeconomics. The topics covered include an introduction to analysis in metric spaces, differential calculus, comparative statics, convexity, static optimization, dynamical systems and dynamic optimization. The book includes a large number of applications to standard economic models and over two hundred fully worked-out problems.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #406193 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 848 pages

Review
‘The textbook is highly recommended to graduate students of economics. Furthermore, it provides a useful mathematical reference for researchers in economics.’ Roland Fahrion, Zentralblatt MATH

‘… an extensive introduction into the mathematic needed in the field of economics.’ Simulation News Europe

Customer Reviews

A comprehensive and rigorous treatment
This an excellent book primarily for students in Economics either PhD or advanced Masters and/or students interested in Economics and who are coming from "rich in maths" fields. It contains an advanced treatment of the mathematics used in graduate economics. The title "Mathematical Methods" may be somewhat misleading since the book adopts a rather rigorous approach instead of the "cook-book" approach. In many parts the book cannot be distinguished from a pure mathematics book but it includes plenty economic applications and examples.

One of the things I really loved in this book is that it is "self-contained"; at the end of the book you will find complete solutions (not merely answers) of all problems (and not just the odd/even ones).

However make no mistake, this is an advanced book and for students with not very strong background in maths I would recommend the the sequence (roughly): Alpha C. Chiang "Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics" after this, Simon & Blume "Mathematics for Economists" and then de la Fuente's book.