Dynamic Programming in Economics is an outgrowth of a course
intended for students in the first year PhD program and for researchers
in Macroeconomics Dynamics. It can be used by students and researchers
in Mathematics as well as in Economics. The purpose of Dynamic
Programming in Economics is twofold: (a) to provide a rigorous, but
not too complicated, treatment of optimal growth models in infinite
discrete time horizon, (b) to train the reader to the use of optimal
growth models and hence to help him to go further in his research. We
are convinced that there is a place for a book which stays somewhere
between the "minimum tool kit" and specialized monographs leading to the
frontiers of research on optimal growth.