BSc in Philosophy and Economics 

For all first, second and third year students in 2014-15

Paper

Course number and title

See note

LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things

Year 1

1

EC102 Economics B

2 and 3

Either MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) and ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) and
PH101 Logic

 

or MA100 Mathematical Methods and ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory

4

PH103 Reason, Knowledge and Values: An Introduction to Philosophy

Year 2

5

An approved paper from the Philosophy Selection List below

6

Either PH101 Logic (must be taken if not taken under paper 3) or an approved paper from the Philosophy Selection List below

7

Either EC201 Microeconomic Principles I or EC202 Microeconomic Principles II

8

EC210 Macroeconomic Principles

Year 3

9

An approved paper from the Philosophy Selection List below

10

Either (a) an approved paper taught outside the Departments of Philosophy and Economics or (b) an approved paper from the Economics or Philosophy Selection List below

11

An approved paper from the Economics Selection List below

12

PH211 Philosophy of Economics

Notes

LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification.

 

Philosophy Selection List

PH201

Philosophy of Science

PH203

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

PH213

Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues 

PH214

Morality and Values

PH217

Set Theory and Further Logic

PH219

Governing Knowledge: Foundational Issues in Science Policy (H)

PH220

Scientific Method and Policy (n/a 14/15)

PH221

Problems in Analytic Philosophy

PH222

Philosophy and Public Policy

PH225

Business and Organisational Ethics (H)

PH227

Genes, Brains and Society (H)

PH228

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

PH229

Global Justice (H)

PH231

Evidence and Policy (H)

PH299

Essay on an approved subject in Philosophy (third year only)

Economics Selection List

EC220

Either Introduction to Econometrics or EC221 Principles of Econometrics

EC301

Advanced Economic Analysis (n/a 14/15)

EC302

Political Economy

EC303

Economic Policy Analysis

EC307

Development Economics

EC311

History of Economics: How Theories Change 

EC313

Industrial Economics

EC315

International Economics

EC317

Labour Economics

EC319

Economic Theory and its Applications

EC321

Monetary Economics

EC325

Public Economics