Economics is a social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources as a means to better understand many kinds of human interaction. Our curriculum helps students master the methods used by economists to analyze economic issues and enables them to make reasoned assessments of alternative public policies in a wide range of fields.
Watch the video below on careers in economics, or follow the link to this video — Why Economics? — from the American Economic Association in which economists at the 2018 AEA Annual Meeting offer their candid thoughts about how they got interested in the field.