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Is the book by Nicholson and Snyder more rigorous when compared to Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics?
In my opinion, focusing on learning optimization techniques with economic applications would better prepare you for advanced Microeconomic Theory. For this, I recommend watching the Microeconomics and ...
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Who first promoted the idea that competition leads to a better economy?
Huerta de Soto, Jesús. “Biography of Juan de Mariana: The Influence of the Spanish Scholastics (1536-1624).” Article. Mises Institute (blog), August 1, 2007:
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Which Spanish scholastic economist said that economies could not be controlled even if one could track every transaction?
Huerta de Soto, Jesús. “Biography of Juan de Mariana: The Influence of the Spanish Scholastics (1536-1624).” Article. Mises Institute (blog), August 1, 2007:
the Jesuit Cardinal Juan de Lugo, ...
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Complex Analysis VS Differential Geometry as signals/preparation for grad school?
It's very personal and no right answer, but I would go for Complex Analysis - it doesn't come up explicitly but it will be behind a lot of the time series results in econometrics and macro sequences ...
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Textbooks for Teaching Intro Micro (Principles): What are the tradeoffs?
FWIW I looked at a number of books and decided on Stevenson and Wolfers (by MacMillan). Big selling points to me were that the book covers a lot of more "modern" topics (like social ...
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Textbooks for Teaching Intro Micro (Principles): What are the tradeoffs?
I can't really give you an answer because I am currently teaching AP with on the Barron's Review book, but I can say that having epub versions of your textbook really helps when making presentations. ...
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Interesting example of general equilibrium effects contradicting RCT results
I realize this is an old question but i was googling searching for the paper in question and found this and thought you might like it. An actual example of a paper where RCT and equilibrium disagree ...
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