数量经济学文学学士学位

经济学关注的是个人或社会分配稀缺资源以及分配商品和服务的方式。任何需要在竞争性替代方案中进行选择的情况都可以视为经济问题。经济学课程使学生能够学习个人做出这些选择的方式（微观经济学），政府做出这些选择的方式（公共选择）以及这些选择的总体后果（宏观经济学）。此外，经济学课程还涉及国际贸易，货币和银行以及欠发达国家的经济发展。
The Department strongly urges students to consider the major in Quantitative Economics, which best prepares them for careers in business and finance, for law school, for M.B.A. programs, and for graduate studies in the social sciences.<br>Economics is concerned with the way individuals or societies allocate scarce resources and distribute goods and services. Any situation requiring choice among competing alternatives can be viewed as an economic problem. Economics courses enable students to study the way individuals make these choices (microeconomics), the way governments make these choices (public choice), the aggregate consequences of these choices (macroeconomics), and to test the relevance of these theories in data (econometrics). In addition, the Economics curriculum addresses international trade, money and banking, and economic development of the less developed nations.<br><br>Faculty members in the Department of Economics have research and teaching interests that span a broad range of fields. In addition to strengths in micro theory, macroeconomics, and econometrics, the Department has expertise in many applied fields, including development economics, economic history, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, public choice and public finance, transportation economics, and urban economics. Members of the Department maintain close ties with members of the Department of Political Science, the Department of Statistics, The Paul Merage School of Business, and the School of Education. Members of the Department maintain affiliations with the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, Institute of Transportation Studies, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and the Center for the Study of Democracy.