Inspired by Dexter Chua(dec41) and other predecessors at Cambridge (may I express my gratitute to them), I decided to start making notes and uploading them online, on courses which I was particularly interested in.

Below are the notes I took and reorganised based on several lecture series of Economics Tripos in Cambridge. None of this is official.

Included are the notes in PDF format, and their source codes. The source code has to be compiled with header.tex in the same folder. I would also include here a revision note version, which would be much more concise and includes only the mathematical models, their assumptions and results, along with most crucial (empirical) facts and definitions. Later on I will also upload a Chinese version to each.

I am currently working on my first series of notes, which is Macroeconomic Principles I from Part I of the Economics Tripos. The first and second chapter, which are completed, is available for download at this moment. I will update the note on a day-by-day basis until it's finished.

My current plan is to include materials from the compulsory Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics courses throughout the Tripos, and Paper 7 (Labour) from Part IIA, as it is rather popular among second year students.

Note that the lecture notes are not reliable indicators for what was lectured, or what will be lectured in your year, as they only represent the knowledge set and toolkit I reckon as worthy to acquire and are completely organised via my (rather odd) approach. Addition to this, I tend to change, add and remove contents from the notes continuously after they are first updated.

Part I

Part IIA

Remarks

Please email any comments to jm2187@cam.ac.uk. Feel free to point out errors or vague explanations, as well as general typographic suggestions.

Here I would like to thank the lecturers who delivered the inspiring lectures. I should also thank my friends Peiran Li and Jing Zeng for their generous provision of the original lecture materials, and all of those who helpfully pointed out my mistakes and typos.

The notes are organised mainly under my own framework of thinking and do not necessarily accurately reflect what the lecturer said or thought.

Frequently asked questions

What books would you recommend for people interested in (particularly theories of) economics?

I have summarised a reading list for economic studies (including some maths books!) and will upload it as soon as finished. This list contains only some famous textbook or milestone works in form of books now; however, I will include some crucial publications as well later.