<p>Is Economics a good major for someone who hates politics? Politics is essentially something where a group of corrupt and dumb *******s get together to expel their hatred on one another. And their decisions happen to affect the general public. </p>
<p>But i love Economics, especially micro econ. Should I still major in this if i hate politics?</p>
<p>I don’t think you could study Economics without a knowledge of politics and how it affects and is affected by political change. Look at Greece at the moment, Pre-WW2 Germany, The US debt ceiling fandango, Marxism, Communism etc etc. </p>
<p>There are more ‘ethical’ areas such as the credit union movement, the Kiva loans, Islamic banking where investment is forbidden, the UK’s National Insurance initiative post-ww2… These might make for more positive research for longer papers. </p>
<p>Developed society is a complex web of politics, history, economics, religion, philosophy, the arts, geography, technology and science amongst many others that both inform and are affected by each other. </p>
<p>However, politics is also so much more complex than your assertion. What about the work of the Suffragettes whose political work enabled women to have greater financial freedom as they broke out of usual social roles? Or the move of black middle class Americans moving into the white suburbs in the 60s due to increased economic success but hitting a political brickwall when local governments didn’t want them? The Northern Ireland Peace Process- most people would have expected pigs to fly before they ever saw that happen? Growing freedoms in Burma?</p>
<p>Don’t hate all politics. Just the decisions made by some. And if you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the problem (as they say 
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<p>What are you trying to do with the degree? There’s a lot of great areas of economics that have nothing to do with politics, particularly in micro. If you want to go to graduate school eventually and do research, there’s an endless amount of non-political micro work you can do. But if you’re looking for a job right out of undergrad, it will mostly prepare you for finance type jobs. If you couple it with some math classes and focus on econometrics, you’ll be able to fine data analysis type jobs in a bunch of different fields though.</p>
<p>Ultimately you can learn a lot of apolitical economics if you pick your econ electives right, but a lot of the more interesting social sciencey type classes are of more academic interest and may not help you land a job.</p>