Economists’ Mathematical Manual

This volume presents mathematical formulas and theorems commonly used in economics. It offers the first grouping of this material for a specifically economist audience, and it includes formulas like Roy's identity and Leibniz's rule.

Set Theory. Relations. Functions.- Equations. Functions of one variable. Complex numbers.- Limits. Continuity. Differentiation (one variable).- Partial derivatives.- Elasticities. Elasticities of substitution.- Systems of equations.- Inequalities.- Series. Taylor's formula.- Integration.- Difference equations.- Differential equations.- Topology in Euclidean space.- Convexity.- Classical optimization.- Linear and nonlinear programming.- Calculus of variations and optimal control theory.- Discrete dynamic optimization.- Vectors in ?n. Abstract spaces.- Matrices.- Determinants.- Eigenvalues. Quadratic forms.- Special matrices. Leontief systems.- Kronecker products and the vec operator. Differentiation of vectors and matrices.- Comparative statics.- Properties of cost and profit functions.- Consumer theory.- Topics from trade theory.- Topics from finance and growth theory.- Risk and risk aversion theory.- Finance and stochastic calculus.- Non-cooperative game theory.- Combinatorics.- Probability and statistics.- Probability distributions.- Method of least squares.