I am a econs grad and I agree with Icycokes except for the bold text.
Economist will focus more on how a particular market behaves. Perhaps business student focus more on cost and benefit analysis.

Only jobs in the Economic Planning Unit or Central Bank (Bank Negara) are deem related job for economist. As a result most econs grads end up in other sectors. Icy already share his thoughts on economist not in related field and I do not disagree.

I had to disagree with mumeichan. The level of math that is applied to economic are in no way inferior to the math applied in business. You think the finding the inverse of 2X2 matrix in SPM is hard? Try it for 16X16 or 5 dimensional (a,b,c,d,e) matrix. The differential and integral calculas is that of 3rd year level math. Once in fourth year, you will have to take econometric. Unless you have 2nd year level statistic you are do not have the prequsite for the course.

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I wonder how many people agree with this statement below.
Lets take it another step and ask if a duoble major (in another non technical field) would enhance job seeking opportunities?

Mumeichan,
Perhaps I misunderstood you. I would not deny a double major helps but only to improve you own knowledge. I am doubtful that it would increace your chance for a job. I did a double major in Sociology. I had a class mate that did a double in Econ and Math. We applied for a vacancy in an insurance company and to our surprise I got the job. In spite of being well verse in acturial math my friend did not get the job. What can I say. Lucky?

Diversity,
It is always good to study something that you like. It is the interest that will carry you through it and ensure success. I had lost interest in Economic after the the second year. I found Soicology more interesting and persue it for a second major. In spite of it loosing out in term of time to Economics (Econ yr2, Socio yr0), my interest manage to help me secure it as a second major. Of course I had to catch up on time by doing summer courses.

I had been in personnel and admin for about 15 years. Now I trade futures and equity.

Nope. Trading is a different ball game. It is also not a profession that you can pick up from books.

There are only two threads on economic in PhD School. Both were the same topic on the good and bad of capitalism. The threads are more on forummers opinion that actual academic debate. There are some threads that had been taged as economics by the TS but had nothing to do with economics at all.

Economics does not realy so much on understanding history. It more of understing how the market behaves. There is only one side to economics. I had a double major in Sociology and Economics. The disciplines do not overlap.

This post has been edited by faceless: Oct 4 2010, 02:51 PM