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Informationen zum Autor Akihito Asano is Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Tokyo. He has previously held positions at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University (ANU). In 2008 he received the Award for Teaching Excellence from the College of Business and Economics at the ANU. He currently teaches introductory and intermediate microeconomics, international trade and introduction to game theory to undergraduate students and mathematical techniques for economics to graduate students. Klappentext A concise, accessible introduction to maths for economics with lots of practical applications to help students learn in context. Zusammenfassung A concise! accessible introduction to quantitative methods for economics and finance for students who are new to the subject. This textbook contains lots of practical applications to show why maths is necessary and relevant to economics! as well as worked examples and exercises to help students learn and revise. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Demand and supply in competitive markets; 2. Basic mathematics; 3. Financial mathematics; 4. Differential calculus I; 5. Differential calculus II; 6. Multivariate calculus; 7. Integral calculus; Appendix A. Matrix algebra; Appendix B. An introduction to difference and differential equations.
