Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Frank Stähler, University of Kiel - Economics and Thorsten Upmann, University of Bielefeld - Institute of Mathematical Economics have a paper on Market Entry Regulation and International Competition. ABSTRACT: We analyze a non-cooperative two-country game...
Sophistpundit (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
My first class in the Master's program at GMU was mathematical economics. I got my bachelor's in history and have never taken a math-intensive program like this. I went in a little nervous. Well, there was a lot to reassure me about this class. To begin with, though it was the most math focused class by far of the three I'm taking, the professor was a history undergraduate himself! Now that's a confidence...
Yet Another Sheep (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Robert M. Anderson has a book manuscript online: Infinitesimal Methods in Mathematical Economics . The book treats non-standard analysis with economic applications.
SALEEM INDIA BLOG (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Mathematical economics Mathematical economics refers to the application of mathematical methods to represent economic theory or analyze problems posed in economics . Expositors maintain that it allows formulation and derivation of key relationships in the theory with clarity, generality, rigor, and simplicity. Much of modern economics can be presented in geometric terms or elementary mathematical notation....
Wikinomics.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
At some point in the past 20 years the interested amateur began to struggle to keep up with economic theory. It was just too hard to enjoy the latest academic work unless you had a head for higher mathematics. Recently, however, some writers, notably Paul Krugman in the New York Times, have been trying to [...]
unsettling economics (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
Kissinger’s nauseating Nobel Peace Prize award might deflate some of the interest in beyond Leon Walras's nomination. Walras wrote his own nomination and had some colleagues submit it. The basis of his nomination was his work in mathematical economics. Although he wrote almost about free trade, his claim was that his work had produced a scientific [...]
PrestoPundit (Free subscription) | 11/08/2007
Left wing mathematician/”economist” Joseph Stiglitz on President Bush and the U.S. economy. One question: are all left wing economists this ignorant of economic history .. or is the problem rather one of dishonesty': Up to now, the conventional wisdom has been that Herbert Hoover, whose policies aggravated the Great Depression, is the odds-on claimant for [...]
Steve Barr's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2007
Today is the launch of www.econsteve.com, my site for economics and mathematics. It will feature daily updates according to the following schedule: Monday - News Tuesday - Economists’ Toolbox Wednesday - Review of a paper from an academic journal Thursday - Theory Friday - Mathematical economics Please check there often. I promise consistent, high quality content. There will also be a [...]
