Our Department
We are eager to discuss how economic tools and economic history can help us better understand and evaluate current societal challenges. We have updated our curriculum to help students engage with these issues head on. Just getting started with college-level economics studies? Our Introduction to Economic Reasoning courses have been using an online textbook for the past several years, with a focus on current economic conditions and real-world behavior.
Mission Statement
The primary aim of the Barnard Economics Department is to provide undergraduate liberal arts students with a rigorous, broad, and critical program in theoretical and empirical economics. To achieve this aim our curriculum
- Provides a thorough grounding in neoclassical economic theory, modern statistical method, and their applications in the traditional fields of economic science.
- Embeds that training in a broader conception of economic science and method with special emphasis on philosophical, historical, and institutional approaches that link economics with other social sciences and humanistic disciplines;
- Compares and contrasts alternative methodological approaches and types of evidence as ways of analyzing economic phenomena, evaluating policy debates, and assessing the broader social and political consequences of economic doctrines.
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email: economics@barnard.edu