Street-Fighting Mathematics and Other Tools
Resources on the Kinds of Uses of Math I Am Trying to Use in This Class:
Sanjoy Mahajan: Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
George Pólya: How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1400828678
George Pólya: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0691025096
George Pólya: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Patterns of Plausible Inference https://books.google.com/books?isbn=069102510X
Paul Zeitz: _The Art and Craft of Problem Solving https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1118916662
Tools: Uses of Mathematics in Economics
Macro Textbook Chapter 3: Thinking Like an Economist
How to Think Like an Economist (If, That Is, You Wish to...)
Optional Teaching Topic: How to Think Like an Economist... (Provided, That Is, You Wish to...) (Pre-Class? Mid-Class?)
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Readings: Optional: https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/macroeconomics-readings-optional.html
Econ 101b F 2018: https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/macrof18.html
Macroeconomics: https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/macroeconomics.html
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