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Web site at
http://www.nd.edu:80/~economic/
Here is a description:
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
Brief description
The Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, which is
housed
in the College of Arts and Letters, currently has 22 regular faculty
members. It offers an undergraduate major in economics and Master's and
Ph.D. degrees at the graduate level, in addition to providing a number of
service courses in economics principles for the university.
The Department is distinctive in a number of ways, including:
It has a strong commitment to analyzing issues relating to
socio-economic justice and ethics in economics. It focuses on
policy-related topics such as poverty, income distribution and social
justice, which stress the human dimension of economics.
Its faculty members are concerned with epistemological questions
and the ethical dimensions of individual economic behavior, and go beyond
the
narrowly defined boundaries of economics to examine the interaction between
economic, political and social phenomena. These concerns give rise to a
strong interest in the development and use of alternative methodological
approaches - such as post-Keynesian, radical and institutional economics)
to the study of economics in addition to the orthodox neoclassical
approach.
Its faculty uses broader political economy approaches emphasizing the
roles of history and institutions in addition to formal theoretical and
quantitative analysis.
This distinctiveness is related to the Catholic identity of the University
of Notre Dame, and is reflected in the research activities of the
Department's faculty, and in the courses offered in its undergraduate and
graduate programs.
Given its relatively small size the Department is specialized in a few
areas of the discipline in which it seeks to excel. The traditional fields
of specialization are development and international economics, labor
economics, public policy, economic theory (in selected areas such as
macroeconomic dynamics and game theory), and history of economic thought
and
economic methodology. Although the faculty members in the Department
sometimes take a stance critical of mainstream economics in their research
in these areas, they strive to participate fully in the intellectual life
economics profession by publishing their work in leading general and
field
journals and with major book publishers.
Although it prides itself in emphasizing the human and policy-oriented
dimensions ofeconomics in its courses, the Department takes very seriously
its role in providing a rigorous, professional training to its students,.
The Department graduates between 60 and 80 majors every year, who go on to
pursue higher studies in economics, business administration, law, public
policy and medicine - some of them leading universities in the country - or
obtain employment with major business corporations, consulting and
financial
firms, and the government sector. Each incoming graduate class - most of
which enters the Ph D program - has between 8 and 10 students. After
taking
their core courses in economic theory, quantitative methods, and political
economy, these students specialize in one of three field clusters:
development and international economics, economic theory and methods, and
institutions. Most of the Ph Ds take up positions in undergraduate
colleges, business corporations, government agencies, and international
organizations, and some have joined research universities.
For more information, please visit our Web site at
http://www.nd.edu:80/~economic/
Esther-Mirjam Sent
Graduate Studies Committee Member
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Department of Economics 426 Decio Hall
University of Notre Dame (219)631-6979 (O)
Notre Dame, IN 46556 (219)631-8809 (F)
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