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please visit prince dhawan's blog where last yr topper harshika singh has discussed her strategy for economics . bhaiya laagat nahi hai ki kauno economics lehan haiin ee exaam maa.
I am thinking of taking economics as my optionals.however,i am not from eco background.cud u kindly share yours so that we can start discussing here after gauging each others proficiency in the subject.i am just a trundler
@MattHardy good to see that som1's in the same boat as mine.as of now,don't think there's any senior guiding us in this regard.i would kindly urge that we start preparin ourselves.i assume u r preparin for 2013 mains itself.if yes,v can surely start discussing here.
@punterdgr8 -- sorry bro, I am actually preparing for 2014.. rather , havent started anything in economics.. yahan to guidance ki umeed se aa gaya tha... so obviously, my speed and study wont be as systematic as yours.
I think we should follow standard books keeping in mind the UPSC mains syllabus becoz hardly any notes or guidance is available for Economics optional. I think we should mainly follow the books suggested by Ms Harshika Singh (AIR 8) in Prince Dhawan's blog, the books list finalised by me is given below:
1)Microeconomics: Advance Microeconomics by Koutsyansis 2)Macroeconomics: Macroeconomics by Mankiw Apart from the book by Ahuja can also be referred for Macro & Micro economics 3)International economics: Book by Dominc Salvator 4)Public Finance: Book by Lekhi 5)Growth & Development : Mishra and Puri 6)Indian economy for Paper 2: Dutta & Sundaram, Mishra & Puri, Economic survey, India Year Book (for govt. schemes) 7) Financial Express and Economic & political weekly magazine for current affairs on all topics. Notes have to be prepared to smooth-en our revision.
@Sam_CB hav som of those buks.hav started 4m micro basics.dis mite seem foolish of me to giv eco in such a short time but hav very much decided 2 go 4 it even if it means startin 4m d scratch.guess,v'll hav 2 keep in touch constantly jus to keep ourselves updated. @MattHardy all d best,nyways!!!
Even I want to take economics as optional, some of them even suggested a silver lining in economics. Questions will be more theoretical and straight forward, less twists and if we know the concepts we can sail through, not sure how much true is this
Even I want to go with Economics optional. I've gone through the previous papers of Economics from 2009. I've attached the same here for the convenience of having all of them at one place.
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bhaiya laagat nahi hai ki kauno economics lehan haiin ee exaam maa.
yahan to guidance ki umeed se aa gaya tha... so obviously, my speed and study wont be as systematic as yours.
1)Microeconomics: Advance Microeconomics by Koutsyansis
2)Macroeconomics: Macroeconomics by Mankiw
Apart from the book by Ahuja can also be referred for Macro & Micro economics
3)International economics: Book by Dominc Salvator
4)Public Finance: Book by Lekhi
5)Growth & Development : Mishra and Puri
6)Indian economy for Paper 2:
Dutta & Sundaram, Mishra & Puri, Economic survey, India Year Book (for govt. schemes)
7) Financial Express and Economic & political weekly magazine for current affairs on all topics.
Notes have to be prepared to smooth-en our revision.
@MattHardy all d best,nyways!!!
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Even I want to take economics as optional, some of them even suggested a silver lining in economics. Questions will be more theoretical and straight forward, less twists and if we know the concepts we can sail through, not sure how much true is this