<p>I'm deciding between a double major in philosophy and math while taking some econ classes (micro/macro) or a philosophy and econ major while taking math classes (calculus/stats).</p>
<p>Which one would be better...? in terms of getting a job in business.</p>
<p>While the argument goes that Philosophy can be closely related to Math (logic), there’s about a gazillion threads on this forum with the general concensus that Math is not a particularly focused major for business (or for much anything else), as compared to Accounting or Economics. And personally I would choose Phil+Econ.</p>
<p>If you’re really good at math there’s no reason to double major in anything. You can take classes in philosophy or economics or finance. The meat of the undergrad econ programs I’ve looked at is just four semesters of micro/macro and intro to econometrics. This kind of econ is child’s play for a math person. The guts of finance is just fundamentals of finance plus investments and possibly financial institutions management. I can’t speak to philosophy because I don’t know much about it but I do know there are classes with a bearing on AI which is something that might interest a math person.</p>
<p>The problem with getting a second major in a soft area like econ is that there are a ton of other classes required by that major in order to justify its existence. They may be easy but they will take time that might be better spent elsewhere.</p>
<p>Take math and econ. Plenty of people do. Lots of people who take the GMAT have to be pretty good at math. </p>
<p>There are mathematical tracks and soft tracks for most economics major programs. Philosophy in my opinion would really only help you if you are going to end up taking the LSAT or going to law school.</p>
<p>As an applied mathematics major, you could take whatever you want. There’s a lot of room for my major to take classes that specifically interest us whether it be economics, finance, physics, computer science, etc. It’s up to you.</p>