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To: Da Coyote

Economics education is quite varied. Some universities emphasize social science but most focus on the quantitative side. The quantitative side of economics is every bit as rigorous as engineering. Economics courses were my most difficult classes in both undergradaute and graduate school. I took the same math as the engineers even though I was a business major. Most of my professors had degrees in applied math or industrial engineering. Equillibrium models, game theory, and other quantitative models are extremely challenging.


24 posted on 10/19/2011 6:06:29 PM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: businessprofessor
"Economics education is quite varied. Some universities emphasize social science but most focus on the quantitative side. The quantitative side of economics is every bit as rigorous as engineering. Economics courses were my most difficult classes in both undergradaute and graduate school. I took the same math as the engineers even though I was a business major. Most of my professors had degrees in applied math or industrial engineering. Equillibrium models, game theory, and other quantitative models are extremely challenging."

I agree. Graduate students in microeconomics take some of the same math classes, like mathematical analysis, that Phd math students take.

41 posted on 10/19/2011 6:23:28 PM PDT by Neanderthal
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To: businessprofessor

One of my daughters has just entered into business and economics courses. She works hard at the challenges and does fairly well. Are these fields (from the education/cirriculum perspective) characterized by change and advance, or do they tend toward principles that will remain in place indefinitely? Put another way, does teaching in either field typically see paradigm shifts like those seen in technology and culture-related fields?

Soliciting your remarks purely out of curioisty, being left handed and more interested in the arts. Thanks.


75 posted on 10/19/2011 8:15:19 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (minds change)
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