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.

经济学中的动态规划是一门针对第一年博士课程的学生和宏观经济学动态研究人员的课程。它可以被学生和研究人员用于数学和经济学。经济学中动态规划的目的有两个：（a）提供无限离散时间范围内最优增长模型的严格但不太复杂的处理方法；（b）训练读者使用最优增长模型，从而帮助他进一步研究。我们确信，在“最小工具箱”和专业专著之间的某个地方有一本书，这本书引领着最优增长研究的前沿。