Economics?!?

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I'm a 6th year student now and I'm thinking bout doing economics at trinity next year, it looks like a good course and employment oppurtunities seem good(Is this true?) but I was just wondering what kind of maths is involved, is it just statistics and probability or does it go into more depth? Also, what would be a good course to do with it in the TSM? Thanks for very much for any help!

A lot of people do Economics & Maths through TSM (thread on it here). There's also another thread on economics here which also ties in a language.

But apart from me putting up links I'm sure one of the many economics [strike]nerds[/strike] students who post on this forum will sort you out.

Time Magazine

I sensed some Economics in the Force.

I'm too busy [strike]writing[/strike] finishing up a project on the Web Browser Industry at the moment. Depending how fast progress occurs, I might get to reply to you tonight. If not, I'll give you the low-down tomorrow.

In the mean time check the Leaving Cert forum out, there was a thread entitled 'BESS or Maths & Economics' about a week ago .

Ibid

Ibid wrote:

I sensed some Economics in the Force.

I'm too busy [strike]writing[/strike] finishing up a project on the Web Browser Industry at the moment. Depending how fast progress occurs, I might get to reply to you tonight. If not, I'll give you the low-down tomorrow.

In the mean time check the Leaving Cert forum out, there was a thread entitled 'BESS or Maths & Economics' about a week ago .

HA HA - you're working on a Sunday night!

But so am I

Ibid

Ibid wrote:

In the mean time check the Leaving Cert forum out, there was a thread entitled 'BESS or Maths & Economics' about a week ago .

I already linked to it!

Time Magazine

Ibid wrote:

I'm too busy [strike]writing[/strike] finishing up a project on the Web Browser Industry at the moment.

C*NT. I mixed this up with my econometrics essay which is 1500 words. So there I was working along jollily when I decided to double check. It's to be 6-10 pages. The sample he posted was 3900 words.

I'm not quite in tears, but not far off it.This is worth my 20% of my end of year grade for Industrial, a subject I think a First is not unthinkable in. It's going to be a long night.

OP, don't ask me whether to do economics for a few days .

Tricity Bendix

Poor ibid. If it helps, I'm still working away. My brain has started acting really funny. My hands feel weightless, which makes it hard to type. Also my chest hurts from sitting in an uncomfortable chair all day.

OP, if you're doing Economics through BESS, you'll be required to do Maths&Stats for the first two years. The Maths is your basic differtiation, matrix algebra stuff, tilted towards cost and input-output problems to make it relevent to Economics. Its pretty much plain sailing if you've got a good understanding of LC maths (note:good understanding is very different from a good LC result). The real fun starts in 3rd year when you get to do mathematical methods, for which you'll need to forget everything you've learned previously and start over again. Matrices feature heavily again, although at a far more advanced level, featuring levely things such as eigenvectors and ntiples.

Stats is concerned with hypothesis testing, critical values and t-tests, distributions with bells on and the like. Econometrics in third year combines the worst bits of Stats with some Maths. You have to compute variances in data, perform regression analyses and such. Its all very exciting, but also very hard.

Popular courses to do via TSM include sociology, psychology, geography and maths, each having significant synergy with economics in one or more aspects, but the choice is really a personal one, and I don't think I could legitimately say one TSM course suits a budding economist more than another.