Text Books Lists

IDEC8003 Issues in Development Policy

Economics of Development: Theory and Evidence

Author: A.P. Thirwall
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: the Ninth Edition, 2011

IDEC8015 Mathematical Methods in Applied Economics

Hoy, Michael, John Livernois, Chris McKenna, Ray Rees, and Thanasis Stengos (2011), Mathematics for
Economics, 3rd edition. Cambridge: MIT Press.

These two textbooks cover the same material and are also good:
Chiang, A.C., and Kevin Wainwright (2005). Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 4th edition.
McGraw Hill.
Klein, Michael W. (2002). Mathematical Methods for Economists, 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley.

Other books worth looking at during various stages of the course include:
Adda, J., and R. Cooper (2003). Dynamic Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Chiang, A.C. (1992). Elements of Dynamic Optimization. McGraw Hill.
Dixit, A.K. (1990). Optimization in Economic Theory, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Simon, C.P., and L. Blume (1994). Mathematics for Economists. W.W. Norton.
Shone, R. (2002). Economic Dynamics Phase Diagrams and their Economic Application, 2nd edition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sysaeter, K., and P.J. Hammond (1995). Mathematics for Economic Analysis, Prentice-Hall

IDEC8016 Microeconomic Policy and Analysis

Nicholson, W & Snyder, C 2012, Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions, 11th edn, Cengage
Learning.

Varian, HR 2014, Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus, 1st edn, Norton.

Jehle, GA & Reny, PJ 2011, Advanced Microeconomic Theory, 3rd edn, Prentice Hall.

Hoy, M, Livernois, J, McKenna, C, Rees, R & Stengos, T 2011, Mathematics for Economics, 3rd edn, MIT Press.
IDEC8029 Issues in Applied Microeconomics

Nicholson, W & Snyder, C 2012, Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions, 11th edn, Cengage
Learning.
World Bank, World Development Report 2015: Mind, society and behaviour
George A. Akerlof, The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism The Quarterly
Journal of Economics , Vol. 84, No. 3 (Aug., 1970), pp. 488-500 Published by: Oxford University Press
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1879431

Morgan, C. W; Katz, Michael L; Rosen, Harvey S, Microeconomics, 2nd revised edn, Boston, Mass. : McGraw-
Hill, 2009