Economics

Professor Eleanor Brown, department chair

Professors Andrabi¹, Brown, Conrad³, Kuehlwein, Likens, Marks, Smith
Adjunct Professor Hueckel
Associate Professors Cutter, Lozano, Steinberger
Assistant Professors De Pace³, Zemel
Visiting Professor Lehman
Visiting Assistant Professor Novarro
Lecturers Bergevin, Jurewitz, Keil

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. It provides tools useful in diverse personal and professional activities. Students who major in economics often go on to graduate schools of economics, business, or law; or find jobs in finance, consulting, other business, the non-profit sector, or government. Students who seek work immediately after graduation find that education in economics broadens job opportunities. The department also offers a minor.

Students who take our courses learn about a wide range of forces that shape our economy and society. Our curriculum emphasizes economic theory, statistical analysis and the role of public policy in addressing economic and social problems. We teach students how to construct and test rigorous models of individual and aggregate behavior and how to interpret empirical results in the context of competing explanations. We offer a broad range of courses designed to serve the aspirations of all economics majors, as well as the intellectual purposes of the broader student body.

Placement: Students may take a placement exam offered by the Department to determine whether they may skip ECON 051 PO  or ECON 052 PO  prior to taking a more advanced course in economics that has one or both of these courses as a prerequisite. Majors and minors in Economics can consider their course requirements for 51 or 52 waived if they perform satisfactorily on the relevant portion of the test, but a student who skips both 51 and 52 must take one additional economics elective to fulfill the major or minor requirement.

Recommended programs. It is strongly recommended that students take at least one economics course at the College before enrolling in 101 or 102, and take ECON 057 PO  before taking upper division courses numbered 115 or higher. It is often useful if economics majors complete ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO , and either ECON 107 PO  or ECON 167 PO  before taking upper-division courses. Students who plan to spend a semester abroad are encouraged to take ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO , ECON 107 PO , and at least one course in a field of interest before going overseas.

• Economics Major
   
• Economics Minor
   
• Economics Courses
   

Read more about our learning objectives:
www.pomona.edu/administration/academic-dean/learning-objectives