économie - Université catholique de Louvain

ESL/UCL - 3 Place Montesquieu - Louvain-la-Neuve
ESL/FUNDP –8 Rempart de la Vierge - Namur
Pourquoi un master
en économie?
Economics School of Louvain

Larry Summer’s view
" The reason I decided . . . to become an economist is
that I wanted to work on solving what felt to me the
most important problems in the world: poverty,
unemployment, helping poor people ,"
Larry Summers said in a 2001 speech.
" But I knew that I didn't want to just shout and rant
about them ."
L. Summers was Clinton Secretary of the Treasury, President of
Harvard University and Chief economist at the World Bank

Students’ views
Most frequently mentioned best aspects :
• It changes the way you think, into a more rigorous
analytical mindset;
• It made me realise that there's a great deal of
pleasure in actually understanding something.
• Economics is a stimulating, and challenging degree,
which can be very difficult at times. This is how a
university degree should be!
The Economics Network 2006 national surveys of economics students

CEO’s views
1. Why did you choose to study economics in the first place?
Because I was interested in how the world worked.
2. What did you like about studying economics?
The breadth of the subject.
3. What types of general skill did your economics degree help you to
develop?
Intellectual rigour.
4. How has your degree helped you in your employment?
My career has been concerned with economic and social policy. I
would have struggled without an economics background.
5. Would you recommend people to study an economics degree and if so
why?
Certainly, because it gives such a good basis for doing all kinds of
things that require an analytic frame of mind.
Interview with Sir Christpher Kelly
(Director of National Consumer council, Chairman of NSPCC,
Director of Monetary and Fiscal policy at HMT)

Pourquoi un master en
économie?
Dans un contexte économique et social
de plus en plus COMPLEXE
⊳mondialisation
⊳intégration économique et financière
⊳changements climatiques
⊳vieillissement démographique
l’ECONOMISTE doit:
1. pouvoir identifier clairement les problèmes rencontrés;
2. rendre ces problèmes abordables;
3. et ensuite, les résoudre.