Modern Economic Education

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Claimed whether in economics, whether it continues to be among the most prestigious?Opinions on this subject in recent years divided.

On the one hand, the statistics confirm that the economic profession are listed as desirable for young people applying to higher education.Still in favor financial, banking and accounting degrees.

On the other hand, more and more forecasts portend a Chartered economists ambulance loss "bread" because of their "overproduction."How do things stand in reality?

little history

As such, economics originated in the second half of the XVIII century.His appearance was a response to the needs of the expanded trade and industry.

first commercial school was opened in Moscow in 1773.There, along with a very good level of teaching general subjects, taught a course in accounting, merchandising, technology, business correspondence, commercial arithmetic and commercial geography.Education at the school lasted for 7-8 years, special items held to 11% of the total number of subjects and levels of education correspond to the status of a secondary school.

modern training economists

Economic education today is no longer fit into the framework of a single school as economic science corresponds to the modern level of development of production and trade.Education economists conducted at several levels (school, college, university, post university) and is divided into numerous economic specialization, sometimes as far as how far apart the current economic profession.

Modern economics has a number of features.

  1. dominates specialization in the development of programs for which there is a training of economists.Often, professionals working in the stock market, for example, have very little idea about the economics of production or logistics.
  2. practices of the accounting theory of the basic foundations upon which economic education.It is believed that the accounting support production should be mechanized and placed in the hands of narrow professionals.However, most practicing economists believe this premise wrong on the grounds that knowledge of accounting is as necessary to the economist, as knowledge must be able to read the alphabet.
  3. Modern economics in the analysis of patterns of business and forecasting its development is increasingly based on mathematical and statistical methods that require students to appropriate training.
  4. Economic education is increasingly selected as the second higher education.
  5. Preparation of competent professionals must be based on the study of global economic relations.Help for modern economists are knowledge of foreign languages.

economics profession eyes magazine Forbes

Forbes magazine in January 2011 published a top ten jobs in 2010.The basis of his research on the data of a large American rekrutinkovogo website Career Cast.The analysis took into account the following factors:

  • expected annual income,
  • comfort of work,
  • demand from employers,
  • absence of stress.

the top position of the list takes an actuary, a specialist in risk assessment, is able to calculate the probability of the problems and the most rational ways to prevent them.Its activity is closely linked with the insurance and financial management.Annual income - up to 85 thousand dollars.The top ten also included the accounting profession and statistics.

Thus, Forbes argues that economics continues to be one of the most popular.