<p>First of all, Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, was a History, not an Econ, major.</p>
<p>Second, ID you’re mixing apples and oranges. I was talking about the efficacy of an economics major versus a focus in finance at say, a school like Wharton (also kind of well-regarded in the business sector…). It seems like you were passive aggressively trying to refute my post, which is why I’m responding here. I will once again repeat, Ph.D. typically implies that one is going to enter academia, not go work on Wall Street. </p>
<p>You can list all the alums you want but 2 successful alums tells us very little about the current economics department. If the student wants to find out about it they can talk to a student whose a mjor or go look at the department page online (<a href=“Economics :: Swarthmore College);%5B/url%5D”>Economics :: Swarthmore College);</a> giving bios of random alumni, one of whom wasn’t even an econ major, and using them to tell people about what makes the Swat econ department (in the 21st century) so great is really misleading and irrelevant.</p>