Economics for Mathematicians

This is the expanded notes of a course intended to introduce students specializing in mathematics to some of the central ideas of traditional economics.

J. W. S. Cassels (Author)

9780521286145, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 December 1981

164 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.23 kg

This is the expanded notes of a course intended to introduce students specializing in mathematics to some of the central ideas of traditional economics. The book should be readily accessible to anyone with some training in university mathematics; more advanced mathematical tools are explained in the appendices. Thus this text could be used for undergraduate mathematics courses or as supplementary reading for students of mathematical economics.

1. Utility, Indifference surfaces
2. Pure exchange economy
3. Theory of the firm
4. Welfare economics
5. Linear economic models
6. Simple macroeconomic models.

Subject Areas: Economics [KC]