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    A Guide for the Young Economist, third edition

    Author William Thomson
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    The MIT Press
    On sale Sep 08, 2026 | 336 Pages | 9780262051323
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    A newly updated edition of the definitive guide for budding economists, with a new chapter of advice for young professors.

    In clear, accessible language—a model of what he advocates—William Thomson shows early-career economists how to make written and oral presentations both inviting and effective. A Guide for the Young Economist 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.

    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 this new edition, the author also includes a chapter of advice written especially for those young economists who have just received their PhDs.
    William Thomson is an economist who has taught at the University of Minnesota, Harvard University, and the University of Rochester. He received his PhD from Stanford University and is the author of several books and over 125 papers. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Economic Theory fellow, and a Fellow of the Game Theory Society, and received the Doctorate Honoris Causae from the University of Alicante.
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    I Being a Graduate Student in Economics
    1 Going through the program
    2 Doing research
    3 Your advisor
    4 Job market 40
    5 Dissertation defense
    II Writing Papers
    6 General principles
    7 The components of your paper
    8 Notation
    9 Definitions
    10 Naming things 125
    11 Style 138
    12 Models 148
    13 Doing proofs and presenting them: General comments 156
    14 Proofs: details of presentation
    15 Figures 191
    16 Finishing and revising
    III Giving Talks
    17 General principles
    18 Dealing with us, your audience
    19 Using the screen
    20 If you write on the board
    21 A little exercise about introductions
    IV Writing Referee Reports
    22 Your frst refereeing job
    23 Your responsibility to the journal and the author

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    A newly updated edition of the definitive guide for budding economists, with a new chapter of advice for young professors.

    In clear, accessible language—a model of what he advocates—William Thomson shows early-career economists how to make written and oral presentations both inviting and effective. A Guide for the Young Economist 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.

    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 this new edition, the author also includes a chapter of advice written especially for those young economists who have just received their PhDs.

    Author

    William Thomson is an economist who has taught at the University of Minnesota, Harvard University, and the University of Rochester. He received his PhD from Stanford University and is the author of several books and over 125 papers. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Economic Theory fellow, and a Fellow of the Game Theory Society, and received the Doctorate Honoris Causae from the University of Alicante.
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    Table of Contents

    I Being a Graduate Student in Economics
    1 Going through the program
    2 Doing research
    3 Your advisor
    4 Job market 40
    5 Dissertation defense
    II Writing Papers
    6 General principles
    7 The components of your paper
    8 Notation
    9 Definitions
    10 Naming things 125
    11 Style 138
    12 Models 148
    13 Doing proofs and presenting them: General comments 156
    14 Proofs: details of presentation
    15 Figures 191
    16 Finishing and revising
    III Giving Talks
    17 General principles
    18 Dealing with us, your audience
    19 Using the screen
    20 If you write on the board
    21 A little exercise about introductions
    IV Writing Referee Reports
    22 Your frst refereeing job
    23 Your responsibility to the journal and the author

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