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What’s in a Degree?

What’s in a Degree?

What is the value added provided by your university degree? The common assumption is that the education you receive provides you with the skills that enable you to better perform in a workplace and increase your productivity. Higher productivity increases earnings in the labour market, and so the cost of

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At the end of this semester, I finish with economics forever. I feel that near the end of three and a half years of an undergraduate economics education, I have not found what I was looking for. And I struggle with this realization, as I doubt whether I was capable

Economics: An elite subject soon only available in elite universities?

Economics: An elite subject soon only available in elite universities?

There are some alarming stories coming out of the UK about the state of academic economics there. It appears that economics is becoming an elite subject for elite UK universities. The relevant literature is listed below but a very accessible source is the London School of Economics and Political Science