Economics

I just want to talk about economics

Tough titty.

econ has the problem that many people deal with economic issues on a day to day basis, but its research level is closer to statistics or pure math than the other social sciences. PoliSci departments absorbed the "real-life applications", and Econ decided to abstract things in a more mathematical fashion. very few econ phds have read WON or Marx bc its honestly pointless for research purposes, save for historical reasons. The famous econ names among laymen are more famous by the "interesting" theories they espoused, not necessarily for a mind-blowing contribution to the way econ is done. it's also important to separate econ from business, as they are two different things. i dont need to know about supermodularity of functions to know how to be a financial analyst, or to run a regression of data. Also, avoid Austrian/Chicago books except if you're interested in Economic History (btw, Vanderbilt is very strong in econ history, i was impressed).

im in a very prestigious econ phd program and most of my mates in my cohort were math majors, and everybody is comfortable with Baby Rudin, even if not all of them will be doing proofs for their research.

OP, read Basic Economics by Sowell: its a good layman's approach to Economics. if you're interested at what's happening at the cutting edge, you might need a math major or to be comfortable in math at the Baby Rudin level for Micro, and at the level of Billingsley(Probability) for the Statistical side of things(Econometrics).

i dont know much about macro, but they use stochastic processes a lot.

hope this helped.

i don't think op knew what the fuck he was asking

probably. everytime theres an econ thread on Veeky Forums i sigh and tell myself "patience..."

you an econ phd as well?

no, polisci
not a quant
(we shit on them for pretending they are you)

polisci is tight.rock on

lol. if i had "mad l33t coding skillz" id become a quant. sadly my knowledge of coding is working at best

Would anyone recommend the Microeconomics textbook by Robert Pindyck and Daniel Rubinfeld?