I just got back from a school-based vegas trip, and besides alcohol poisoning, what i got from it was a sense of what I want to do for the rest of my life. Yes, I know I already spoke of being an econ major. Yes, I went through that whole spiel, and nothing is changing!
I was with 3 other social science majors, all of whom are involved in interdisiplinary fields of study, be it, psych and anthro, cog sci and psych, etc. Econ does have some ties to the social sciences, (behavioral economics (econ/soc/psych), but I think that anthropological economics (if i could name it, i think i would go for universal economics or something of that sort) is a necessary field that is, as far as i know, non-existent or not very developed.
I present to you the thesis question I hope to attempt to answer throughout my career in academia:
"Is economic, as a whole, ethnocentric? Would economic principles be starkly different if not developed from the western standpoint? What would economics be if not developed (and overwhelmingly taught and researched) in the west? Is economics, as we know it, a derivative of a biased western academia? Further, what are these differences and how can we rectify them?"
I have no idea how to go about doing this, so if you all have any ideas, I'll be taking any advice from now til when I retire from that field.
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Take a few classes on critical race theory, and/or read a few books about the racialised aspects of economics. There's probably plenty to look at.
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