Welcome to the Economics Department

Economics is about understanding the behavior of people. In particular, economics seeks to address how the world can be understood based on the incentives that various economic agents face. In practice, the study of economics involves using both conceptual and empirical tools to examine how people make choices. This theoretical and data work is, in turn, crucial in informing policymakers how to make their decisions.

Our majors gain strong quantitative skills through their courses and end up working in a vast array of professions: consulting, healthcare, banking, finance, pharmaceuticals, and real estate, to name a few, while others find careers in non-profit and public sectors. We also send our students to graduate school in law, business, economics, or public policy to name a few. 

Our majors also tend to have substantial earning power based on their economics degree. According to the Wall Street Journal’s “Degrees That Pay You Back” data, economics majors have the highest mid-career median salary of any non-engineering major.

So, please come visit us in the department and talk to our many faculty about your future major in economics!


NEWS

  • Government program seeks to bring new jobs to former coal towns
    “In places like Texas or in the middle of the country where there’s a lot of solar and wind, fossil fuel communities are relatively well positioned to take advantage of renewables,” Economics professor Mark Curtis who is studying the clean energy transition as it relates to labor, told The New York Times. “Coal communities generally don’t have […]
  • Greensboro ranked among the least EV-friendly cities in US
    Economics professor Mark Curtis noted the varying demands for public electric vehicle chargers across different regions. “In a place like Winston-Salem, where the majority of [electric] car owners are going to be homeowners as well, they can very easily charge within their house when they get home…places where the vast majority of owners live in […]
  • 2024 Economic Report of the President.
    Professor Mark Curtis’s work was cited in the 2024 Economic Report of the President in chapter 6 “Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition” 
  • North Carolina Gambles On Sports Betting
    Legalized sports betting brings fresh tax revenue—and reports of gambling addiction. Experts say N.C. colleges aren’t ready. Dr. Todd McFall was quoted in this article.

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