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Average Customer Rating:  Perfect yourself in mathematical economics Very helpful book especially since the problems are fully solved and explained. A good book to follow while taking a class related to financial theory. A Lifesaver Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!
I used this text to prepare for my business PhD program (which requires PhD level micro and stats). I'd never taken calculus or linear algebra, so I was pretty nervous about the quant aspects of the program. I bought this book about six months before school started and went through chapter-by-chapter, and I couldn't be happier with the results. Thanks to the great explanations and huge amount of practice problems, I was able to master all of the topics I needed, and even got the highest grade in our pre-PhD "math for economists" course. This book would be worth 10x its price. Good service I received the book in good time and received very good service from the company. I would do business with them again.
superb for revision - bad for first-learners This book is straight to the point, the concepts are mainly explained through examples as well as walk-though excercises.
This is an upper-undergraduate or even graduate book on this topic, and so it assumes you know some algebra beforehand, but technically no prior knowledge of calculus is needed.
This book is on the same level as Chiang's book 'Fundamental methods--'.
You could learn from this book as a complete beginner as long as you do all the excercises and repeat each chapter until you know everything fluently. But this book is probably best used for revision or as complementary material.
There are no actual exercises in the book, only solved problems.
You can still use these as excercises though, just cover up the explained bit and try it yourself first.
The "excercises" in each chapter start out easy for each topic introduced, and then increase in difficulty, this means that you can adjust what you learn according to what your own abilities and goals are.
The applied excercises cover both microeconomics and macroeconomics, I think the proportion of each was very good.
I need to mention that some of the chapters on the economic applications require prior knowledge of intermediate macro & microeconomic Theory.
You need to know the economic concepts beforehand, as this book will not teach you that.
This book covers roughly the same content as Chiang's book.
But there are two major differences, one in methodology and one in presentation:
1. methodology; Chiang prefers to explain through words, Dowling through examples
2. presentation: Chiang is very formal/general in presenting his formulae - it's the type of math you see in journals, Dowling is more specific in his formulae - the type you see mostly in textbooks and is easier to work with
In my view, Chiang's book tends to focus more on microeconomic applications and less on macro, Dowling has a more even distribution.
For revision my preference is with this Schaum-book, it is much easier to look things up in this book - which is why it works so well as a reference and revision book.
With Chiang's book you can't really do that as the text "get's in the way".
Fantasic I bought this book as a supplement to my econometrics course. It is fantasic. It had been a few semesters since I'd taken my calculus and statistics courses and this really helped me brush up on the mathematical side of econometrics (pretty much the entire course...) This book was very helpful, to the point where I am now going to purchase 4 more books on various topics for review. This is a great choice and the range of topics covered is most comprehensive. |  |
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