A Guide for the Young Economist

January 2001
6 x 9, 144 pp., 14 illus.
$22.00/£16.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-70079-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-70079-5

Cloth (2001)

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A Guide for the Young Economist
William Thomson

This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or facing their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise language—a model for what he advocates—William Thomson shows how to make written and oral presentations both inviting and efficient. Thomson covers the basics of clear exposition, including such nuts-and-bolts topics as titling papers, writing abstracts, presenting research results, and holding an audience's attention.

About the Author

William Thomson is Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, New York.

"This book is very useful for economists of all ages, and it is a must for Ph.D. students and their advisors. I suggest that all authors submitting papers to Games and Economic Behavior use Thomson's book as a guideline."
—Ehud Kalai, Editor, Games and Economic Behavior

"How many times have valuable contributions to scholarship—written and oral—been compromised because of inadequate communication? This is far less likely to happen if economists read and think about the issues discussed in William Thomson's book."
—John Pencavel, Department of Economics, Stanford University

"Good economic theory mixes rigorous mathematical reasoning with intuitive motivations and stories, which can make the task of presenting or evaluating cutting-edge research a treacherous balancing act. In this one-of-a-kind essay, Thomson offers an armful of good advice and tricks of the trade to economists young and old, lest any of them forget that a bad container can spoil its contents."
—Hervé Moulin, Department of Economics, Rice University

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