精华[转帖]很受启发的文章：学经济学五年有感

受益菲浅！！！

我也是经济学的硕士研究生啦，虽然自己没什么心得，但听别人的还是比较多。今天我是打开眼界，头一回听到经济学的数学要这样补。谢谢楼主给我的思维带来了有利的外部冲击，这个冲击会通过有效的传播机制到达遥远的地方。^_^

谢谢您

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强人!值得学习.

确实是好文章

谢谢LZ！！！

曼昆的建议

Advice for Aspiring Economists

A student from abroad emails the following question:

Do you have some hints for me, how to become a good economist?

Here is some advice for, say, an undergraduate considering a career as an economist.

1. Take as many math and statistics courses as you can stomach.

2. Choose your economics courses from professors who are passionate about the field and care about teaching. Ignore the particular topics covered when choosing courses. All parts of economics can be made interesting, or deadly dull, depending on the instructor.

3. Use your summers to experience economics from different perspectives. Spend one working as a research assistant for a professor, one working in a policy job in government, and one working in the private sector.

4. Read economics for fun in your spare time. To get you started, here is a list of recommended readings.

5. Follow economics news. The best weekly is The Economist. The best daily is the Wall Street Journal.

6. If you are at a research university, attend the economic research seminars at your school about once a week. You may not understand the discussions at first, because they may seem too technical, but you will pick up more than you know, and eventually you’ll be giving the seminar yourself.

You may find some other useful tidbits in this paper of mine.

Update: Here is some advice from Susan Athey about applying to grad school in economics.

都学很多年经济学了，还没有悟透，实在是汗颜。

阔以阔以，很受启发，革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力！