Pursuing a Ph.D. in economics could cause a lot of pain. It requires you have very strong confidence over topics such as how the society is organized and how people rationalize their behavior and others’ thinkings of their behavior. So if you don’t have such confidence, you would better find a close friend to be with you through the five years of pain. Some used to think marrying another economist would be a good idea since, by that, you two could discuss bounded rationality at dinner table, criticize best responses when watching A Beautiful Mind together and playing two-stage least squares on the beach. But this article suggests this not be good and my friends agree. So not a person, maybe a tool? 
I recommend Emacs, and particularly Aquamacs for Mac OS X.
- Programming modes for c++, fortran or ox are built in or can be easily found.
- Emacs plus auctex is the best TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt environment.
- Stata mode for econometricians.
- Matlab mode for computational.
- imaxima mode for those don’t love algebra.
- gnuplot mode for producing fancy graphs.
This is for fun
最近想做一个compute automation of general to specific model selection procedures.
你有没有这方面的程序的信息？
我快被搞死了。