<p>Having checked out all the other majors, I can safely say that these two are my favorite. Does the above major-minor combination make sense in a career/job perspective? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Yes it does especially if the economic subfield you’re going to pursue will be behavioral economics. Even if not psychology is vital to truly understanding economics, which is largely about decision making. Understanding why people make decisions, how they make decisions, and so on is useful in every subfield of economics. As an economics student I can tell you that the behavioral economics field is extremely interesting and has helped me in my subfield of public economics. </p>
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<p>Read Dan Ariely’s “Predictably Irrational.” It’s probably one of the best texts for an introduction to behavioral economics, which is pretty much psychology/brain & cognitive science and economics in one field.</p>
<p>It’s definitely an interesting field. The field pretty much throws away the rational choice model (you’ll know what this is once you take an intermediate microeconomics course), and tries to answer phenomenon that we typically see.</p>
<p>It can answer why do we procrastinate important tasks, why are we attracted to free goods, why do aches persist after taking a cheap pill, but disappear after taking an expensive pill of the same contents, etc.</p>