Is economics hard? (1 Viewer)

[Swagiel_]

I am currently doing modern history and I am not entirely sure if I want to keep at it, because I don't really need it.
I have been considering economics because it looks really really interesting, plus I want to do some kind of business when I leave school.

but is it hard? should I stick to modern? which is the smarter choice?



thanks

 

[astroman]

do eco

 

[Swagiel_]

do eco

Does it scale better?

 

[astroman]

don't worry about scaling, but yes

 

[Swagiel_]

don't worry about scaling, but yes

is it hard? a lot of content and homework.

 

[astroman]

It is definitely content heavy but again all commercial studies are but you can get away with roting some topics

 

[redjnr]

I find with Eco it's almost 50:50; some people hate it and drop it ASAP, others love it and do really well in hsc. I can't say much I how it compares to modern other than both scale quite well.

Doing Eco probably is the smarter choice if you are really good at analysing trends/relationships and have an interest in money and how the economy works (have you ever wondered what newspapers mean when they say monetary loosening? Or what the Rba has to do with interest rates?)

 

[BLIT2014]

Most of my cohort dropped economics..its 'hardier' then modern history.

People either seem to like it or really hate it like redjnr said.

 

[elkedag]

Eco is really more of a logic type subject. So as long as you're familiar with the thought processes involved in economics, you would be able to reason many of the economic consequences out, and is probably more useful than memorising these causes and effects (especially for longer short answers and extendeds). Never did modern, but I would doubt that you could logic out things to the same extent that you could in eco.