History and Economics

About this course

History and economics is a pairing that gives you two of the most powerful analytical frameworks for making sense of the human world. History trains you to think about change and continuity over time, to handle evidence critically, and to construct arguments about complex causal chains. Economics provides formal models of how individuals, firms, and governments make decisions under constraints, and how those decisions aggregate into markets, institutions, and macroeconomic outcomes. Together they allow you to ask how economies have actually developed across time, why some societies became wealthy while others did not, and how policy choices in the past have shaped the present. At the University of Edinburgh you will study this four-year full-time programme, which includes a year abroad, giving you the opportunity to encounter different national historiographies and economic traditions i

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 100% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 25% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 40% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 20% of graduatescards →

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