Math Preparation for PhD

[gchinkov]

HI,

I am starting a PhD program in Economics this September and would like to have good math background for the first courses. They start with:

Blanchard & Fisher, Ljungquist & Sargent, Stokey & Lucas
Mass-Collel, Whinston & Green

So far I have revised Chiang's Fundamental Methods in Math Economics and intend to continue for the remaining time with Elements of Dynamic Optimization (Chiang) and De La Fuente.

This Includes: Linear Algebra, Calculus, Contrained Optimisation and Dynamics.

What would you recommend? How to continue?

Thanks,
Georgi

[pookchen]

Focus more on de la fuente. Chiang is outdated

[dafrk3in]

You might want to pick up Sundaram's "A first course in optimization." It goes over some pretty important concepts--Kuhn-Tucker, the Maximum Theorem, etc-- that you'll probably see in your Micro class. The text is also well-written.