You will get a job but you won't be in high demand because what you learn can't be applied and has no use in the office as a low level staff or low level management. If you plan to do economics, strengthen it up with business math, financial models and investment or statistics. It's simple, look at the syllabus of your economics degree, go to the bookstore or google up the areas you will cover and just read the broad and brief definitions of the things in the syllabus. Then you can answer the question yourself.

This post has been edited by mumeichan: Jul 11 2010, 05:02 PM

Yes, but that's not my point. I'm telling him he needs to double major in business mathematics, statistics, finance or investment. By business math I did not mean the math someone needs to learn to get just any BBA. Sorry about the confusion. I meant doing another major in financial math, actuarial math or something similar or majoring in statistics. Because, as you say, a degree in economics requires alot of math, but not up to what Math majors learn in their 3rd year, if that's what you mean. We need to learn up to multivariable calculus, basic statistics and linear algebra. Those subjects can easily be done in 1 year. Secondly, we are only applying the math to economic models. So a little more math and statistic and we can already double major in finance, financial math, statistic or even actuarial math. These are far more practical and have more lower level positions in the business field.

Sure they overlap. Simple question, if something was priced at 0, how much would people want? That's something of interest in economics, sociology, psychology, politics and probably many other social sciences. There's overlap all around, it's just a matter or realizing it. And term's like economics, sociology and so on are just man made terms, it's only valuable in terms of language but as far as scientific inquiry is concerned, they're nothing more than over generalized classifications.