The MSc Economics and Philosophy programme provided me with an excellent training in Economics courses. I was planning to do a PhD in Economics after the MSc, so developing skills in the research methods for Economics was essential for me. At the same I was looking for an opportunity to look beyond pure techniques and to study […]
Andreas Pähler works now as a Quant Engineer at swissQuant Group, Zürich, Switzerland. He says this about the degree:
The Economics and Philosophy programme is a great choice if you are interested in economics (and know a bit about it) and if you are also interested in looking at and understanding economics (as a scientific activity […]
Prior to applying for a place in the Economics and Philosophy programme at the LSE a few questions kept on ringing in my head. One was whether taking up an interdisciplinary course was better than focusing on one subject. The other was whether the course would help my future career – be it in further academic research […]
My MSc year at the LSE was incredibly intense; it was both demanding and — at least with the benefit of hindsight — lots of fun. I worked hard, and it wasn’t always easy to satisfyingly divide my time between the economics and the philosophy part of my degree. I’d nevertheless recommend this degree to anyone who […]
Mårten Lewander writes, ‘I attended the MSc in Economics and Philosophy during 08/09. My goal when applying to LSE was to give myself a chance to really indulge in the philosophical issues surrounding economics, such as those relating to normative theories of distribution. I also wanted to sharpen my previous knowledge of economics without necessarily having to […]
Tom Cunningham is pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at LSE. He writes, ‘I enjoyed the MSc economics & philosophy program a great deal. In the philosophy seminars we were able to chew and digest the material I learned in the economics courses. The other students taking the program have become close friends. It wasn’t straight-forward to enter […]
Chunxiao Liu is a management associate at Citibank Bejing.
Lucilla Bruni works for an economic consultancy in London. She writes: The MSc was very useful in finding a job in economic consulting because of: 1) the very rigorous approach of the Economics courses at the LSE was a guarantee for my employer of the quality of my training in Economics; 2) the Philosophical component of the […]
Alexander Badinski is pursuing a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. He writes: The M.Sc. in Economics and Philosophy is one of the greatest programs I ever heard about and I was so glad to have had the chance of attending it. I also enjoyed many of the offered seminar speaches, public lectures and conferences in […]
Joshua Tan started out at as an investment banker at DBS, Singapore’s largest bank, and is now at PhillipCapital. He writes: My employers hired me because they thought that I was interesting and different from the usual Accounting/Business/Finance grads that they hire. Thus they were willing to overlook the fact that I had no Finance background (but […]
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