{"id":105,"date":"2017-09-27T20:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-economics\/government\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T19:08:09","slug":"government","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/careerpreparation\/government\/","title":{"rendered":"Courses for a Career in Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many employees of government agencies are trained in economics and business. These people work in the areas of&nbsp;economic development, urban planning, housing, transportation, natural resource management, government finance,&nbsp;and numerous other governmental divisions. In addition, an economics major can be an important component in a&nbsp;preprofessional undergraduate program leading to graduate study in areas such as law, urban planning, international&nbsp;relations, and public administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) To prepare yourself for a career in government, you should consider as electives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* ECON 235 (Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy)<br>* ECON 431 (Economics of Public Policy)<br>* ECON 442 (Labor Economics).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) If you anticipate a career in the Federal Reserve System or as a federal policy analyst, you should also consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* ECON 356 (Capital Markets)<br>* ECON 420 (Applied Dynamic Macroeconomics)<br>* ECON 457 (Finance)<br>* ECON 481 (Advanced Econometrics)<br>* ECON 485 (Empirical Finance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Finally, many of the skills required in non-profit organizations are similar to those required in the business sector or&nbsp;those which lay the foundation for a successful entrepreneur. See Business and International for courses related to&nbsp;these interests.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many employees of government agencies are trained in economics and business. These people work in the areas of&nbsp;economic development, urban planning, housing, transportation, natural resource management, government finance,&nbsp;and numerous other governmental divisions. In addition, an economics major can be an important component in a&nbsp;preprofessional undergraduate program leading to graduate study in areas such as law, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":91,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/1227"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}