<p>But why would you limit yourself that way?</p>
<p>A young-ish relative of mine was a physics major at Chicago, got a graduate degree in math, and is raking in bucks at an investment bank. “Economics” is not any more marketable a skill than many other courses of study provide. (I love economics as a discipline, by the way – nothing against it here. But you don’t need to major in it to have a productive life.)</p>