Liberal Arts Majors Didn't Kill the Economy

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<p>“Too much demand for liberal arts didn’t kill the job market. Too little aggregate demand did… If liberal arts majors “didn’t learn much in school,” as Jane Shaw put it in the Wall Street Journal, why haven’t they always had trouble finding work?”</p>

<p>[Liberal</a> Arts Majors Didn’t Kill the Economy - Atlantic Mobile](<a href=“http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/liberal-arts-majors-didnt-kill-the-economy/272940/]Liberal”>Liberal Arts Majors Didn't Kill the Economy - The Atlantic)</p>

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<p>Finally, a journalist that doesn’t slam liberal arts majors!</p>

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<p>Liberal arts majors DID kill the economy. All those Ivy League (and etc.) liberal arts graduates at the big banks, hedge funds, and brokerages.</p>

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<p>. . . and the liberal arts majors at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac!</p>

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<p>and can we please have a liberal arts major tell us what is wrong with the first sentence of this article?</p>

<p>Is our college students learning?</p>

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<p>One theory has it that “Quants” killed the economy, along with their older, three-martini-lunch supervisors who were too poorly schooled in the new methods to recognize (and reject) their risky, harebrained ideas. </p>

<p>[Did</a> “Smart Guys” Destroy Wall Street? | New Republic](<a href=“Did "Smart Guys" Destroy Wall Street? | The New Republic”>Did "Smart Guys" Destroy Wall Street? | The New Republic)</p>

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<p>NeedAVacation: Had the same reaction. What? (I have a history degree, too)</p>

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<p>I have never heard anyone suggest that “too much demand for liberal arts [killed] the job market,” and I’ve never found it interesting to beat up on strawmen.</p>

<p>FYI: The grammatical mistake is a reference to a comment by George W. Bush.</p>

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<p>NeedAVacation, do a google search on the sentence. It’s deliberate.</p>

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<p>One of the comments indicated that it’s the person and not the major. The major just signals to a prospective employer that you’re capable of completing a STEM major which is generally regarded as doing something difficult.</p>

<p>We’ve been hiring a fair number of people lately on my floor. Some people leaving to join startups and some other reasons that I haven’t dug into. One of the hiring managers that I work with tends to hire foreign nationals with CS doctorates from US universities where their research or background is related to the work that we do. It is actually difficult to find these graduates.</p>

<p>The discussion talks about hiring history or other majors to do STEM-type work.</p>

<p>I think that it would be pretty hard for a history major to step into the type of jobs that we do when it can be a lot of work and effort for Phds to get up to speed.</p>

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<p>That New Republic article is one of the most overtly racist things I’ve read in a long time, despite the author’s protestations.</p>

<p>“Meritocracy breeds excess”. Yeah, right.</p>

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<p>guess only a liberal arts major would understand this.</p>

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<p>Corruption killed the economy. Corporate, political, federal, state, local and individual corruption killed the economy.</p>