This week has been filled with moving as well as finishing a paper that I had to revise and resubmit. Blogging can now resume.
How about this from the Wall St. Journal?
What's your major? Around the world, college undergraduates' time-honored question is increasingly drawing the same answer: economics.
U.S. colleges and universities awarded 16,141 degrees to economics majors in the 2003-2004 academic year, up nearly 40% from five years earlier, according to John J. Siegfried, an economics professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., who tracks 272 colleges and universities around the country for the Journal of Economic Education.
And the best part...
And as its focus broadens, there are even some signs that economics is becoming cool.
There you have it. Economics is becoming cool. Well, I thought it has been all along. The rest of the world is just catching up. But in all seriousness, there are some interesting things in the article about job prospects for all these economics majors (hint: they are good).
(hat tip: Marginal Revolution)
Time to catch up on some other things. Blogging will be somewhat light for a few days, but I am here and if interesting stuff comes along, I'll toss in my 2 cents.
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