<p>i was thinking math or stats, as both help, albeit in different ways, with quantitative analysis and research in the economic field. thoughts?</p>
<p>Good question. I’m wondering the same, but was considering poli sci, english, history, IR, philosophy or even psych</p>
<p>I’m thinking about doing majors in economics (BA) and IR, as well as spanish and business minors. I hope this can set me up to work abroad or for an international company. </p>
<p>What I know for sure is that if you want to do graduate work in economics at all, you’ll need all the math you can get. And if your school offers a BS vs a BA, go for the BS :)</p>
<p>If you can do double major with math and econ, minor in stats, that would seem like a good bet to me.</p>
<p>MATH OR STATS!!!</p>
<p>I vote Math.</p>
<p>I was under the assumption that in order to obtain a degree in Econ you needed a worthy amount of Math, making a separate math major over kill. That assumption was based on the math courses that Harvard professor Greg Mankiw recommended in his economics blog [Greg</a> Mankiw’s Blog: Which math courses?](<a href=“http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/which-math-courses.html]Greg”>Greg Mankiw's Blog: Which math courses?) But looking at some of the degree maps it seems like that assumption may be wrong. Perhaps applied economics requires more math than just economics. Even though I didn’t come to really appreciate math until recently, I still don’t love it, and was sort of hoping the Economics would force me to take a certain amount of math classes…</p>
<p>@themindseye</p>
<p>All the Ph.D students at UW I’ve asked have told me the same thing “you can’t take enough math.” The reason I can tell is that if you are great with math then it becomes intuitive, which means that you’re going to be great at the Econ. At UW the BS in Econ is only like 9 credits away from a Math Minor, and a BA in Mathematics isn’t that much more.</p>