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Please encourage your senior undergraduate students to apply to Notre 
Dame's economics graduate program. For more information, please visit our 
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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