here are some recommended texts to supplement
Mas-Colell:
- Varian's grad-level
Microeconomic Analysis. Offers a bit more intuition for the 601
stuff.
- Varian's Intermediate
text, also known as `baby Varian.' Useful for intuition as well.
- Lones recommends Gibbons's Game
Theory for Applied Economists for an accessable game theory text. We
do, too.
- Krep's A
Course in Microeconomic Theory is particular recommended for 603/604
material.
- Nicholson's text is also highly recommended.
- The Structure of Economics: A Mathematical Analysis
by Eugene Silberberg, Wing Suen, Wing Chuen Suen gets the following recommendation:
...extremely helpful and enlightening and fills in the gaps of
Mas-Collel well, esp on the nuts and bolts of the actual work and arriving
at results rather than seemingly arriving cryptically at some results. And
they give some good intuition, as well as devoting an entire chapter
to the envelope theorem.
Here are some books on proofs/solving in general:
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