And not the business school?

Good Question. I would think it would be in the Business School.

Behavioral economics being a combination of economics and psychology?

By design.

It's a historical thing. College of businesses weren't as common until the 50s so in historical universities and colleges economics sat in liberal arts. Many kids who go to the ivy's can't take business so will opt to economics instead. It's also less focused on actual job roles versus a general education.

It's an either/or, but as someone with an Econ degree I can say it's not out of place. Liberal arts used to be respected before they went woke. Econ is philosophical on a lot of levels, so it does not necessarily relate directly to business curriculum.

I also have an Econ degree. I always thought we should be in the business school, and many universities have moved their Econ programs and changed them from BAs to BSs in the last 2 decades.

My kid who goes to Mich St. is getting a BA in Intl Relations (they have a special undergrad college for public policy) but I hammered him to get a BS and he chose Economic Geography which is in the department of social sciences but is a mix of Econ/GIS/Urban Planning. Will get dual degrees next may but is only considering jobs/masters in the BS side of things.

Kinda glad that Econ was separate or the requirements would not have allowed two degrees as business puts too many different types of required classes to double count any.

Hasn't had too much of the woke BS in classes but that crap is everywhere.

Economics is a liberal art.

It places sociology, political science, and human behavior in its calculus when studying trends in many things, not just financial markets.

Because economics has no business

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I also have an Econ degree. I always thought we should be in the business school, and many universities have moved their Econ programs and changed them from BAs to BSs in the last 2 decades.

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Unless something has changed recently, A&M offers both a BA and a BS track for econ majors. BS track is more math/business focused while BA track is more language/typical lib arts focused.

Read some of Krugman's stuff……there's your answer.

Liberal Arts used include a lot more subjects. At one time the math department was part of the College of Liberal Arts.

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Read some of Krugman's stuff……there's your answer.

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Direct hit!!! You are correct sir.

College of liberal arts (at TAMU) does not exist anymore. It is now the College of Arts and Sciences.

doubledog said:

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College of liberal arts (at TAMU) does not exist anymore. It is now the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Correct. The College of Liberal Arts, College of Science, and College of Geosciences merged.

PaulC_80 said:

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Good Question. I would think it would be in the Business School.

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I would have thought College of Liberal Arts, if not that, then College of Science. The Business School would have been behind the two of them but ahead of the Veterinary School.

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College of liberal arts (at TAMU) does not exist anymore. It is now the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Are you sure about that? From https://www.tamu.edu/about/departments.html

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College of Liberal Arts

Anthropology
Communication
Economics
English
International Studies
Hispanic Studies
History
Performance Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Sociology

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College of Science

Biology
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics & Astronomy
Statistics

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They are in the process of merging.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Krugman-press_conference_Dec_07th,_2008-8.jpg

This man has a doctorate in economics. Do you think he knows anything about business?

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I also have an Econ degree. I always thought we should be in the business school, and many universities have moved their Econ programs and changed them from BAs to BSs in the last 2 decades.

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Interesting, and I didn't know that ECON was a BA degree. I have an Agricultural Economics degree and it is a BS.

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They are in the process of merging.

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You're right!

See https://cache.cloud.tamu.edu/path-forward/The-Path-Forward.pdf

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I was pleased to see recommendations that aligned with the seminal Vision 2020 plan. In that document, "Imperative 4. Build the Letters, Arts, and Sciences Core" describes how Texas A&M "will never be seen as a premier institution nationally without a far stronger letters, arts, and sciences program." In the MGT report feedback, some questioned why a STEM-based institution would deviate from its position of strength in agriculture and engineering to enhance the arts. However, at many institutions, the arts and sciences serve as the center-point of the university, the foundation upon which all degrees are built. We must step forward to strengthen this core of our institution. It is a bold step, but I believe the correct one to take. We will bring together the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Geosciences and Science to form the College of Arts and Sciences. This merging of arts and sciences will create a critical mass by which all programs will benefit.

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It is notable that they now want a School of Visual and Performing Arts,

It often seems to be that it is better to do a few things well rather than doing everything half-assed.

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Aggie Jurist said:

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I also have an Econ degree. I always thought we should be in the business school, and many universities have moved their Econ programs and changed them from BAs to BSs in the last 2 decades.

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Interesting, and I didn't know that ECON was a BA degree. I have an Agricultural Economics degree and it is a BS.

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When I was there, you had a choice of a BA or a BS, and the class requirements were different. I went BS.

It would be nice if more engineering graduates did not speak and write as if English was a hastily and recently acquired second language.

They working on a big new state of the art performance center also

TXAGBQ76 said:

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They working on a big new state of the art performance center also

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Have they started work on the basket weaving center yet?

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Aggie Jurist said:

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I also have an Econ degree. I always thought we should be in the business school, and many universities have moved their Econ programs and changed them from BAs to BSs in the last 2 decades.

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Unless something has changed recently, A&M offers both a BA and a BS track for econ majors. BS track is more math/business focused while BA track is more language/typical lib arts focused.

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I was going to post this. When I was at A&M in early 90s there were two tracks for Econ.

I guess it's called liberal arts?

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doubledog said:

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College of liberal arts (at TAMU) does not exist anymore. It is now the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Correct. The College of Liberal Arts, College of Science, and College of Geosciences merged.

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I feel like we already had a thread about this. I get the administrative redundancy reduction, I just hope it isn't a way to bring more trash faculty into the more objective fields from the already-destroyed liberal arts college.

Also, yes, when I was at A&M 20 years ago an Econ BA meant 14 hours of foreign language and the Econ BS track didn't.

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Rex Racer said:

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doubledog said:

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College of liberal arts (at TAMU) does not exist anymore. It is now the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Correct. The College of Liberal Arts, College of Science, and College of Geosciences merged.

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I feel like we already had a thread about this. I get the administrative redundancy reduction, I just hope it isn't a way to bring more trash faculty into the more objective fields from the already-destroyed liberal arts college.

Also, yes, when I was at A&M 20 years ago an Econ BA meant 14 hours of foreign language and the Econ BS track didn't.

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I know there was a reason why I went for a BS in Math instead of a BA. That might be it.

When I was getting ny accounting and finance degrees and asked that question, they (economics professors) told us it was because almost all the science is hypothetical/theoretical and is nicknamed "the dismal science."

Interesting point they made is that the formal, university study of economics has only been around about 130 years…..100 years when I was at A&M. Also mentioned that economics is at the same point of development today as math and physics were to the earliest of Greeks.