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Can some one tell me what sort of Maths I need to help me out with economics? And better still, some websites that have free maths excersises and help etc??
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What do you want? For a BA degree you will need introductory claculus or business calculus, as well as a lower-level statistics course. For a BS degree you will need an upper-level stats course and up to Calculus II. You probably won't need Calculus though until you reach the intermediate level..
If you are talking about maths for grad school, you need a lot more..."I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
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well, i am reading through an econ text book, for first year degree i beleive. Though I am not actually doing it myself, though i may when i have finished the degree i am on now, I just want to know in general what i should look intoeimi men anthropos pollon logon, mikras de sophiasComment
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Ouch. The Maths is idiotic in Economics.www.my-piano.blogspotComment
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Originally posted by Park Avenue
Ouch. The Maths is idiotic in Economics.
thats ok, but i'd still like to know what i am aiming to learn
and any websites that have free excersises....eimi men anthropos pollon logon, mikras de sophiasComment
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Don't you have a Maths for economists course? This should teach you what you need to know. We use all kinds of material, but most of it is calculus. However, the subset of calculus that we use is quite specialised, hence the need for a course.
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I take it you've already conquered Homeric Greek and billards?Originally posted by The Andy-Man
thats ok, but i'd still like to know what i am aiming to learn
and any websites that have free excersises....
Youre a quick learner!
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It's probably not the maths per se that will be the problems early on. It's the new way of thinking that's necissary for economics. It's a lot like '1984' in a way.
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cough, bull****, cough.Originally posted by DrSpike
Don't you have a Maths for economists course? This should teach you what you need to know. We use all kinds of material, but most of it is calculus. However, the subset of calculus that we use is quite specialised, hence the need for a course.
There is math for econmists at an undergrad which is watered down. not quite math for poets...but not math for MechE's either.
At the grad level, there can be some hairy stuff if you get into social sicience modeling or into finance.Comment
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How much math you need depends on how far you want to go. Unless you want a PhD, you should be able to get by with a good understanding of differential calculus and constrained maximization, plus a little bit of linear algebra and some differential equations if you want to learn about growth.
As far as websites, check out the course pages at some good universities. They often have lecture notes, problem sets, and answers.
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The New School for Social Research (AKA "New School") also has a really excellent set of micro and macro notes using calculus, but I dont have that URL right now.Old posters never die.
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Originally posted by TCO
cough, bull****, cough.
There is math for econmists at an undergrad which is watered down. not quite math for poets...but not math for MechE's either.
At the grad level, there can be some hairy stuff if you get into social sicience modeling or into finance.
That's what I said............attend the undergrad course.Comment
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The bull**** was about specialized calculus driving the need for an "econ-math" course.Originally posted by DrSpike
That's what I said............attend the undergrad course.
I think it is more related to level of knowledge. You need more math than an English major but less than a physical scientist.
I have a math for econ book as part of my MBA. It was really shockingly easy. It was there for the English majors who freaked when they saw a teensy amount of calculus mixed into the elasticity discussions and such. And a lot of the book had not even calculus but referesher grade school math.
(All that aside, when I tutored MBA students for our corporate class, I found that I could explain micro 101 withouth calculus, you can switch most of the explanations to an algebraic or at least a visual calculus (slope of curve) basis. Much better to keep the English-major weenies thinking about the key concepts and insights than to bog them down with a derivation. (OF course, it almost kills the physicists, when I use algebra (for instance delta x/delta y instead of differentials). They go crazy a little.
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Originally posted by TCO
cough, bull****, cough.
There is math for econmists at an undergrad which is watered down. not quite math for poets...
I wont bother with my question about why economists would need to know anything about calculus (kinda like immunologists )
We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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Ok. I agree with some of that; I don't teach the maths until it is needed, which is after the concepts have been kicked around for a year or so. My point though, was that the subset of maths used in economics is rather peculiar. This is even true of the subset of calculus used, though this might not be apparent to you. Hence, maths transplanted from elsewhere can easily be misleading or just not that useful.Originally posted by TCO
The bull**** was about specialized calculus driving the need for an "econ-math" course.
I think it is more related to level of knowledge. You need more math than an English major but less than a physical scientist.
I have a math for econ book as part of my MBA. It was really shockingly easy. It was there for the English majors who freaked when they saw a teensy amount of calculus mixed into the elasticity discussions and such. And a lot of the book had not even calculus but referesher grade school math.
(All that aside, when I tutored MBA students for our corporate class, I found that I could explain micro 101 withouth calculus, you can switch most of the explanations to an algebraic or at least a visual calculus (slope of curve) basis. Much better to keep the English-major weenies thinking about the key concepts and insights than to bog them down with a derivation. (OF course, it almost kills the physicists, when I use algebra (for instance delta x/delta y instead of differentials). They go crazy a little.
I am not *cough* bull****ting *cough*, that is just my opinion from actual experience of teaching economists.Comment
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