MSc in Economics and Philosophy

Programme code: TMECPH

Full-year programme. Students take courses to the value of four units and a dissertation. Students are also required to attend EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics.

Paper

Course number and title

1 & 2

Two of the following:

 

EC402

Econometrics

EC411

Microeconomics

EC413

Macroeconomics

3 & 4

Courses to the value of two full units from the following:

 

EH428

History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH429

History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H) (n/a 15/16)

PH400

Philosophy of Science

PH404

Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues

PH405

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

PH413

Philosophy of Economics

PH415

Philosophy and Public Policy

PH416

Philosophy, Morals and Politics

PH419

Set Theory and Further Logic

PH423

Scientific Method and Policy 

PH425

Business and Organisational Ethics (H)

PH427

Genes, Brains and Society (H)

PH428

Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H)

PH429

Global Justice (H) (n/a 15/16)

PH430

Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (H)

PH431

Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (H)

PH456

Rationality and Choice

5

PH499

Dissertation

Students must also take PH418 Dissertation Seminar - Economics and Philosophy (non-assessed)