| View Larger Image | The Structure of Economics: A Mathematical Analysis | Paperbackby Eugene Silberberg (Author), Wing Suen (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. | | Edition: | 3rdrd Edition | | Page Count: | 704 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 01, 2000 | | Sales Rank: | 448,209th |
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Product Description
This text combines mathematical economics with microeconomic theory and can be required or recommended as part of a course in graduate microeconomic theory, advanced undergraduate or graduate-level mathematical economics, or any advanced topics course. It also has reference value for international, library, professional and reference markets. This revision addresses significant new topics - the theory of contracts and markets with imperfect information - that have recently become prominent in the microeconomics literature. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 13 reviews)
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Good for PhD level theory supplement by hart (Lincoln, NE USA)  4 Stars
March 09, 2009
Professor recommends this book for our first year PhD micro econ theory courses. Definatley helps understand the application sides of first year micro theory topics.
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don't stupid by terry tai  1 Stars
February 06, 2009
how to say that, I paid about 70 dollars for this version,but I just found the hardcover version only need 60 dollars at the same shop(amazon).
BTW, I found that this version is internation version after I reveived it. -_-!! the international version only need 40 dollars at other web site.
so I would suggest buy the hardcover version!!!
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Spectacular by Econdroid (Massachussetts, USA)  5 Stars
January 16, 2009
I have an ambitious goal for this review. I want this book to become a standard reference for all aspiring economists. If you only "kind of" understand the first several chapters of MWG and it gives you cold sweats at night, read this book as soon as possible. "The Structure of Economics" should be considered a classic and recommended to all graduate students of economics, and to all advanced undergraduates aspiring to graduate study. It is vastly superior to the equivalent sections in MWG (the "time-capsule" approach to economics...).
Every single page of this book gives the reader a fresh and profound perspective on the bread and butter mathematical techniques employed by practicing economists. The author does not wave his hands. Even better, he waves his hands very occasionally in very precise ways, and he tells you up front why it's necessary to do so without resorting to serious mathematical pyrotechnics (and tells you where you can find those pyrotechnics if you're intrigued). He presents the same ideas over and over in waves of increasing sophistication. He provides problems at the end of each chapter that are solvable and genuinely interesting. He is funny. He intersperses the text with jewels of historical context.
Some of the main lessons are: the meaning of Lagrangian objective functions and multipliers, the meaning and omnipotence of the envelope theorem, the sources of prediction and ambiguity in economic models, the sources and meaning of duality theory, the unity of most economic models...if you have seen these ideas all over the place and wished you understood them well enough to employ them yourself, this book is for you.
This book is not all you need, of course. But I think it delivers a bigger intellectual reward per unit time than MWG, Varian, Deaton and Muellbauer's "Economics and Consumer Behavior" (a great treatise on the consumer's optimization problem), Dixit's "Optimization in Economic Theory" (also a superb book, and a nice prelude to Silberberg). Even if you think you already knew something in the table of contents, Silberberg will make you see it in a cleaner, more general, more useful way. I keep thinking I can skip a section but then, nope, Silberberg has something to teach me.
Maybe I've been duped, but I don't understand why this book is not more widely read. The above reviews which claim the text is too arduous must have come from students without any prior exposure to basic mathematical economics. Perhaps you do need some preparation before tackling this book. But I am not very mathematically-inclined and I think this book is crystal-clear.
In summary: Buy it. Read it. Assign it to your students. Spread the word.
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Perfect!! by Dennis H. Barber 5 Stars
September 29, 2008
The book arrived in a timely manner and the condition was just as described. Very satisfied!
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Excellent book by A. Nieto (bs as , argentina) 5 Stars
April 08, 2008
Excellent book for micro economics, from intermediate to advanced level, allows for excellent undersatnding although as some point out in other reviews it can be at times complicated, but so is the nature of the subject it explains. In use with an additional text covering the more theoretical approach it is key to understanding the analytical part of microeconomics. A parallel could be established to some extent to Alpha Chiang's Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics.
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