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"The study of economics has a serious image problem. Just 8 per cent of all
year 12 students studied economics in the Higher School Certificate last year,
compared with almost 30 per cent three decades beforehand.
High school students find the subject uninteresting while university students
perceive it as abstract, difficult, dull and boring, not relevant to the real
world and lacking an ethical dimension, research has found.
Investment bank UBS’s chief economist George Tharenou believes those sorts of
perceptions were unwarranted and said economics should be booming in popularity
with socially engaged Gen Z school students.
“If you want to make a difference in life, and this is the social agenda of
younger people, wanting to be differentiated, have a voice, be heard … the key
public policy debates are driven by economists,” Tharenou said.
Rising interest rates have put economics in the spotlight, but he said students
had not twigged to the fact that a career in the industry was more than just
staring at spreadsheets.
“The opportunity to make change for a good cause is new, but I don’t think
people have quite got that,” he said."
Via
Guardian Australia.
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
