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None actually. The intro sequence was Gujarati and the advanced sequence was :yuck:Greene:yuck:

Oh boy, this should be fun :doh: Econ: Contemporary econ issues, intro micro/macro, intermediate micro/macro (at 2 different schools), advanced micro/macro, intro econometrics (x2), econometrics (x3), Issues in IO, Issues in growth/dev., Intl trade, intl finance, multinational corps., econ of the pacific NW, urban & regional, labor econ, IO, public econ, health econ, history of thought, monetary theory, monetary policy, behavioral & experimental, economic forecasting, IO & public policy, PhD seminars in: Game theory, IO, Monetary Econ, Time Series Math: Calc 1-3, intro stats, linear algebra (x2), diffy qs, multivariable calc (x2), statistics (x2), regression & variance, elementary analysis, discrete dynamical systems To be fair that was over the course of 7 years (I have a BA in math & econ and an MA in econ)

Through UG and MA program: 35 Econ, 14 Math Anyone wanna top that?? :)

I dunno about John Malthus, but Thomas R. Malthus had a thing or two to say about this ;). It wasn't so much that society in its entirety would be reduced to the level of subsistence, just that a large percentage would always be at this level. The basic idea is that as long as the lower classes were able to afford to have more children, they would. Once it became too expensive to support additional children, the birth rates would decrease. This process would leave a certain segment of society at a certain socioeconomic level forever. (He also had an interesting point about how it would be impossible to make a poor person better off without hurting others by simply giving them money.)

Haven't heard of that, is it worth reading? As far as controversial stuff goes, I did just finish Malthus' Principal of Population, which was a bit better than I expected I'm fairly certain it will be Gibbons, but I'm not positive. I kinda hope it is, because Gibbons isn't particularly difficult as far as that stuff goes. And yes, Varian >>>> Mas-Colell for enjoyability, but to me that's like saying a dirt sandwich tastes better than a poop sandwich :D

Just make sure you don't get too overconfident on the math section. I was easily getting 800s on all my practices, but when test time came around I ended up with a 760 :hmm:

I would say that the most important thing you will need to understand for grad micro (aside from basic calculus and linear algebra of course) is optimization. By this I mean Lagrangians, Envelope theorem, etc. and yes, Kuhn-Tucker. As far as analysis/proofs type problems, a lot of that depends on the program you choose. A more theoretical program will require these skills, particularly a top-20 level program. I'm right there with you when it comes to struggling with analysis. I find it difficult to wrap my mind around this type of problem, though I excel at the computational (i.e. crank-turning) problems like calculus and LA.

I think the original derailing is mostly my fault, so I thought I would make up for it by trying to contribute to this thread. My summer started in mid-March, so I've gotten a jump-start on reading, and plan to knock out as many books as possible this summer. Highlights include: Econ related: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy - Joseph Schumpeter The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen Non-econ: Republic - Plato Utopia - Thomas More The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky Anna Karenina - Tolstoy I'm also in the process of reading through Varian's Micro text, but thats unpleasant.

Analysis would be good for signaling, but I imagine would be pretty much worthless in actual financial econ, whereas stats would be absolutely critical

So am I right in guessing that you have decided on UW untitled?

Well, I'm disappointed that I won't have you as a classmate, but given your situation I think you're probably making the right choice. Good luck, and enjoy SF! :)

Worldly Philosophers is an excellent choice, and C&F actually gets even more ridiculous as the book goes on :) Wait til you get to the part about education

Agreed, I thought this book was pretty solid for an introduction to analysis. Of course they love it here at Oregon, because Ken Ross used to teach here ;)

Haha, this is random, but that girl did her undergrad at Oregon and is a good friend of mine

Um, Antichron?