Or BERL.

That is a valid fear, and that is what Economics as a subject should be teaching itself. My suggestions for other subjects are based on what you would do next to economics – so technical computer and statistical model building skills are pretty useful there.

If Economics as a subject at Vic decided to solely focus on the implementation of model building then I would be more likely to suggest adding History/Philosophy. But I would also start to wonder whether it would be a degree worth doing in the first place then 😉

Well there is all the talk about big data. But can you not teach yourself what you need as you need it? I fear the kids not having the skills to understand and interpret data if we give up on things like history.

Vic has been cutting back on econ history – but I did quite a bit of History as a subject at Vic, and it was frikken excellent. The History department does have an economic historian as well.

Although I really enjoyed doing Economics, Econometrics, and History – and even though I think it is a great combo – with the way things are going I really feel I need to suggest Statistics/Comp Sci to the kids. Really valuable tools in there which help when Econ is giving the context.