WHY ECON IS (CAN BE) KEWL !!

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•All the different things to study! "Queen of the Social Sciences"

(Take this light-heartedly, we like students and colleagues in other departments.)

To support this claim we can point to people with economic backgrounds who are "successful" in a variety of fields. For example, Ben Bernanke (Chair of the Central Bank), Alan Greenspan (former Chair of the Central Bank), Mic Jagger, Alice Rivlin (former Vice-Chair of the Central Bank), Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg, Ben Stein (of Comedy Channel fame), Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Lionel Richie, George Schultz (former Secretary of State), and Joan Robinson. The founder of the USM College of Business and deans up until 2003 have all been economists.

One of the oldest subjects and yet it is still spinning off new fields. The reason for this longevity and germination is that economics mixes the rigor of mathematics with the insights from philosophy, political science, history, etc. The scope is at times; very broad, very mathematical, very practical, very specific, and very unmathematical.

•Flexibility in the Major! You can earn a B.A. degree from the Liberal Arts College. The B.A. gives you the most flexibility. This degree gives you excellent preparation for law school (econ with political science), economics grad school, or for the Masters in Business (econ students could be the best trained for the rigors of grad school in business). Minors are possible as well! Mix some Biology courses and econ and get a JOB at the Environmental Protection Agency! At 48,800$ (as of 2010), the average starting salary for Econ beats accounting, finance, business, marketing, and many others. One of the highest starting salaries period....and has been that way for many years.

•Plus we give all "A's" (NOT) !

Come by the Department of Political Science, 4th floor in LAB and talk to us about what an exciting future you can have. Maybe one day you could get the Nobel Prize in Economics!