<p>I would like to ask, if you can recommend me some introduction to these 2 macro textbooks: Stokey / Lucas and Sargent / Ljungqvist, which I will be using in the 2nd year MA in Economics.</p>
<p>So something at a lower level (maybe intuitive explanation of the math), but which will help me to progress to these 2 textbooks.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>

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2021-05-02T15:36:42.717Z
If Stokey Lucas and Prescott is a future benchmark, then all the intermediate economics books will not get you very far. Instead, you should read some texts on real analysis, metric spaces, topology, and functional analysis. I would therefore recommend reading something like 'Foundations of Mathematical Economics' by Carter.
EB3112
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2021-05-02T21:00:08.900Z
EB3112, thanks for recommendation!
Mr. T
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2021-05-03T17:49:17.927Z
A long long time ago, when I was still a student, I found the following a quite useful intro to dynamic models: [Ferguson and Lim: "introduction to dynamic economic models"](https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Dynamic-Economic-Models-Ferguson/dp/0719049962)
tdm
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2021-05-05T00:47:46.690Z
If you know some calculus I think that Ljungquist/Sargent is pretty much self contained at least in the 3rd edition - the first five chapters and chapter 7 are an introduction to the methodology. The usual dynamuc macro course starts only with chapter 8.
Grada Gukovic
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Intro to Stokey / Lucas and Sargent / Ljungqvist
Mr. T
# Intro to Stokey / Lucas and Sargent / Ljungqvist

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-02)

I would like to ask, if you can recommend me some introduction to these 2 macro textbooks: Stokey / Lucas and Sargent / Ljungqvist, which I will be using in the 2nd year MA in Economics.

So something at a lower level (maybe intuitive explanation of the math), but which will help me to progress to these 2 textbooks.

Thank you!

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: If Stokey Lucas and Prescott is a future benchmark, then all the intermediate economics books will not get you very far. Instead, you should read some texts on real analysis, metric spaces, topology, and functional analysis. I would therefore recommend reading something like 'Foundations of Mathematical Economics' by Carter.  
> **username_0**: username_1, thanks for recommendation!  
> **username_2**: A long long time ago, when I was still a student, I found the following a quite useful intro to dynamic models: [Ferguson and Lim: "introduction to dynamic economic models"](https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Dynamic-Economic-Models-Ferguson/dp/0719049962)  
> **username_3**: If you know some calculus I think that Ljungquist/Sargent is pretty much self contained at least in the 3rd edition - the first five chapters and chapter 7 are an introduction to the methodology. The usual dynamuc macro course starts only with chapter 8.  

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