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MSc Economics

Suggested pre-programme reading

 

Offer-holders sometimes ask if they can do any preparation before joining the course. This typically means any suggested pre-reading that you could do to bring yourselves reasonably up to speed on a topic, especially if you are taking the programme as a ‘conversion’ course where you may not have studied much Economics before.

As preparation for your Masters, you might consider reading some foundation texts covering Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics at intermediate (second-year) level.  

 

Here are some suggestions:

 

Microeconomics

 Reading list for students without background in Economics:

  • Jeffrey M. Perloff (2020), Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus. Pearson, 5th
  • Robert S. Pindyck, Daniel D. Rubinfeld (2018), Microeconomics. Pearson, 9th global ed.
  • Hal Varian (2014), Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach. W. W. Norton & Company, 9th

Reading list for students with background in Economics:

  • Walter Nicholson and Christopher Snyder (2012), Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions. South-Western, Cengage Learning, 11th
  • Martin Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein (2020), Models in Microeconomic Theory. Open Book Publishers (e-book is available for free on the website of Ariel Rubinstein after the registration: https://arielrubinstein.org/gt/arielDocs/).

 

Macroeconomics

 Reading list for students without background in Economics:

  • Olivier Blanchard, Alessia Amighini, and Francesco Giavazzi (2021), Macroeconomics: A European Perspective. Pearson, 4th
  • Charles I. Jones (2018), Macroeconomics. W. W. Norton & Company, 4th

Reading list for students with background in Economics:

 

Econometrics

Stock and Watson. (2019). Introduction to Econometrics. Global Edition. 4th Edition. Pearson