There is a strong focus on such factors as the role of culture, custom and routines in economic behaviour and development. It addresses economic and institutional change, usually ignored by other approaches, and is thus an ideal analytical approach in a complex and rapidly changing world. Compulsory modules include insitutional and evolutionary economics, economics as realist social theory, paradigms in economics and economics methodology. Lecturers currently include Professor Geoff Hodgson, and invited guest lecturers include Dr Tony Lawson. If you specialise in economics, you undertake an in-depth study of economic theory and policy.
Emphasis is placed on policy applications of economics.
You follow core courses in economic theory, macroeconomic policy, economics methodology and econometrics. You also have a wide range of options from which to choose. This course gives you the opportunity to combine the study of economics and management at an advanced level. It provides analysis of economic issues relating to business, and an analytical approach to different perspectives on management. This course gives you the opportunity to combine advanced level study of economics with the study of contemporary issues and analysis in industrial relations or human resource management.