Program Description

Economists study how societies allocate limited resources to achieve competing ends. They employ empirical and deductive methods to analyze incentives, constraints, organizational forms, and market forces.

Economists study how societies allocate limited resources to achieve competing ends. They employ empirical and deductive methods to analyze incentives, constraints, organizational forms, and market forces.

Economists also draw on the disciplines of mathematics, law, statistics, philosophy, psychology, and history in their efforts to solve problems and address issues such as unemployment, inflation, interest rates, health care, education, and crime.

The Policy Economics track will prepare you to earn a law or graduate degree in a moderately quantitative area or to find a decision-making position in the public or private sector.