"The
Barnard Economics Department believes that an excellent liberal arts
education in economics must include a
thorough grounding in
-
neoclassical economic theory,
- modern
statistical method, and
- their
applications in the traditional fields of economic science
and
must go beyond this to a critical study of
- the
origins of economic thought in the Classical political economists,
- the
philosophical bases of economic science,
- the
links between economics and other social sciences and humanistic disciplines,
and
- the
political consequences of economic doctrines
. "
[December
1, 1983]