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I'm interested in understanding economics papers a little more deeply. I'm a freshman undergraduate student, and most econ papers I try to read seem like jargon concatenated with Greek symbols. I'm guessing that academia does some of this on purpose, but I'm sure there is still some significant portion that is meaningful and insightful. I can learn the jargon with econ courses, and I will eventually learn the Greek through math courses. However, I can't just sit around for the rest of my UG experience for people to teach it to me. In your experience, what mathematical concepts have come up the most in economics papers and what standard undergraduate course/textbook would they be contained in? For example, if you've seen Lagrange multipliers used a lot, you might say, roughly paraphrasing: "yo, learn some of dat Lagrange **** from Calc3 cuz it useful" Thanks for your advice!
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