Title: Overkill
Product review: If you have not studied mathematics extensively, at least an undergraduate major, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. It is dense, abstract, has very few concrete examples, and has quite a few errors to boot. De La Fuente is a mathematician in full glory, and the student of economics is often left wondering when he will get to the relevence to economics.To be fair the book does cover most topics at a higher level of sophistication than most other mathematical economics textbooks. It does a nice job covering calculus and the implicit function theorem, if you have seen these topics before. However, unless you have had about 8 semesters of college level mathematics of more, you will not be able to read and comprehend this book on your own without a class.Most of my colleagues at UC Berekeley have been unhappy with this book. If you must use this book for a course, try buying another book as supplement. I recommend Mathematics for Economists by Simon and Blume.
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