Economics focuses on decision making and problem solving. It concerns itself with making intelligent individual and social choices in a world of scarcity. 

The mission of the economics program is to educate undergraduates in the fundamental concepts and methods of economics and to help them become better informed and more productive citizens. Learning outcomes for students include the development of sufficient facility with the tools of economics to critically analyze private and public decision-making processes, contemporary and historical socioeconomic issues, and the fundamental role that economic forces play in society.

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Research Economics through the Collins Library subject guide.

Economics faculty

Meet our faculty!

Top row (left to right): Matt Warning, Lisa Nunn, Lea Fortmann; Middle row (left to right): Kate Stirling, Andrew Monaco, Garrett Milam; Front row (left to right): Bruce Mann, Peter Sullivan, Wade Hands, Isha Rajbhandari