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 | | Mathematical Methods for Economics (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics) by Michael Klein ISBN-10: 9780201726268 ISBN-10: 0-201-72626-2 ISBN-13: 9780201726268 ISBN-13: 978-0-201-72626-8 Hardcover 2001-07-23 Addison Wesley Find Lowest Price |
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It's good because of what it covers To one of the reviewers: The "delta-epsilon" definition of the limit really is tough - don't blame yourself or the book. Try Googleling it - everybody has a hard time explaining it. What I like about the book is that I feel it is giving me a solid preparation for an advanced degree in economics. You just have to plow through it, and have confidence in the fact Klein chose the right material. Nobody has said this stuff is easy... | ||
Not Very Helpful This textbook is simply not very helpful. Many of the questions test knowledge that is not presented in the textbook. Additionally, the questions are quite often poorly worded. These weaknesses detract so much from the functionality of the textbook that they render it relatively useless. I would not recommend this book, especially if you are a professor choosing a book for your class to use as a guide. Also, answer keys are nearly impossible to come by, thereby making it difficult to learn the processes presented by the problem sets, especially ones that are not well integrated with the text (which are quite a few). | ||
Better be good at math to understand this book I am currently using this textbook in an undergraduate Mathematical Economics class. I understood the material in the first chapter...until I came across the concept of limits. I have never taken a calculus class in my college career...I was only required to have taken finite mathematics before taking this class. So, when I read the material on limits, I had no idea what a limit was. And this textbook did not help in understanding it either. I had to check out a calculus textbook from the school library in order to finally understand what limits were. I bought Schaum's Outline of Introductory Mathematical Economics from Amazon, and so far, have found it more helpful in understanding Mathematical Economics than Klein's book. This book would probably be suitable for graduate students that have already obtained sufficient knowledge and proficiency from previous economics and math courses. First, I would like to see more examples of the concepts in this book. MORE EXAMPLES!!!! Secondly, I would like to see the solutions in the back of the book expanded...maybe including all of the problems in the textbook worked out with correct answers...not just the odd problems and the answers. This would definitely help students check their work and know see where they made a mistake in working out a problem. I have seen this in two of the math textbooks that I have used for previous classes...my finite math book for example, not only had the solutions of odd numbered problems in the back of the book, students could also buy a solutions manual seperately. The solutions manual not only includes the right answers...it shows students how the problems are worked out to reach those answers. This helped me alot when working on a problem. When I realized that my answers were not correct, I checked the solutions manual to see where I made a mistake in working out the problem. Michael Klein should publish an updated edition of this book and make it more student friendly. | ||
Doesn't explain JACK!! I agree with the other bad review about this book. I had it for a junior/senior level undergraduate class and I found it very confusing. It seems like it already expects you to know how to do most of the stuff. A lot of the problem sets have problems that I swear aren't explained ANYWHERE in the text. Poorly written, hardly any examples (which hint hint, are very useful in a math book) Overall a very bad book I would say, unless you already have extensive calculus/economics knowledge, but then I ask WHY WOULD YOU NEED THE BOOK ANYWAY??? | ||
Finally a step-by-step introductory graduate Econ-Math book The first year as a Ph.D. student in Economics is very hard, especially if you are coming directly from the undergraduate level. After reading very formal and pseudo-user friendly books such as Simon and Blume (1994) and Novshek (1993), when it comes to the practical stuff, you end up looking at Varian's (1992) appendix, using Silberberg (1990) and (of course!) Chiang's 1984 masterpiece. But, on the other hand, if you need a careful and very user-friendly explanation of topics such as continuous and discrete dynamic optimization as well as applications of the Envelope Theorem, I have not found a better book than Klein's Mathematical Methods. | ||