Double major in Economics and Mathematics or Major in Economics and minor in Government

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@JHS

Of course, economics is not business or finance (although one can make it a lot about finance by choosing courses carefully). But the OP pretty clearly indicated that his or her interest in economics was to get a job in consulting or finance, and that he or she didn’t find actual economics very interesting. I suspect the OP resembles a majority of today’s economics majors in that respect, given the popularity of the major relative to the opportunities in the world to be a practicing economist and the difficulty of qualifying for them. But I didn’t mean to suggest that economics = business.

You are probably right that a major in economics is commonly used as a proxy to indicate interest in business. Indeed, there are many universities where the economics department and major are under the business division, rather than the arts and sciences division with the other social studies departments and majors. In some schools that have undergraduate economics but not undergraduate business, some of the elective courses in the economics department have a “business” emphasis (e.g. the accounting, finance, and business law courses at Claremont McKenna).