Economics

Professors Choo, Riera-Crichton, and Shea; Associate Professors Goff, He (co-chair), and Smith (co-chair); Assistant Professors Bird, Chakraborty, Lindsay, Sen, and Subramanian; Visiting Assistant Professors Morrill, Sallah, Stelnicki, and Wang.

An understanding of economics can help foster intelligent citizenship. Decision makers in business, government, and the nonprofit sector frequently evaluate complex economic issues. The goal of the economics curriculum is to educate students, both majors and nonmajors, about the ideas of economics and how they apply to today’s world.

The Economics Department offers a set of introductory courses numbered between ECON 151-199. Each offering covers a common set of economic concepts, such as tradeoffs, supply & demand, and opportunity cost, but in the context of a field within economics. These introductory courses are not part of the economics major but are appropriate for students deciding whether to pursue economics, students preparing for the economics major, and non-majors just looking to take an economics class.

Courses numbered between 250 and 270 cover intermediate economic theory and introduce students to the methods of empirical analysis. Three-hundred-level courses integrate practical economic issues with empirical and theoretical analyses, enabling students to develop sophisticated insight into both contemporary and historical economic problems.