BA Philosophy and Economics
Entry requirements
A level: AAB plus grade 6 in GCSE Mathematics IB: Pass, with 34 points overall with 17 at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics, an economics and philosophy degree centred on analytical and theoretical approaches to social and political thought. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Ethics & Professional Practice, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The curriculum draws on facilities including a dedicated financial trading room environment and social sciences laboratories. The first year covers core foundations through Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Ethics, and Reason and Argument. The second year builds on these concepts with compulsory study in Macroeconomic Policy, Microeconomics of Public Policy, and Rationality, Preference, Wellbeing, and Fairness: Concepts in the Philosophy of Politics and Economics, alongside preparation for final-year independent projects. Optional modules across the programme allow students to explore diverse areas such as International Trade, Applied Econometrics, Public Economics, Philosophy Dissertation, and Contemporary Theories of Justice.
Modules
- Economics Skills and Employability 1
- Ethics
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Principles of Mathematics for Economics
- Principles of Statistics for Economics
- Reason and Argument
- Truth, Knowledge, and Objectivity
- Applied Ethics
- Faith and Reason
- Freedom and Responsibility
- Global Sustainability Challenges
- Philosophy of Race
- Population and Society
- Prescriptive Analytics I: Fundamentals of Management Sciences
- Primary and Secondary Education: Critical Observations
- Puzzles about Art and Literature
- ECON Dissertation: Prelim Info
- Economics Skills and Employability 2
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Microeconomics of Public Policy
- Rationality, Preference, Wellbeing, and Fairness: Concepts in the Philosophy of Politics and Economics
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- Animal Ethics, Animal Minds
- Applied Econometrics
- Applied Economics
- Cognitive Psychology in Education
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Development Economics
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Epistemology: Knowledge and Evidence
- Ethics of Global Poverty
- Games
- Global Sustainability Challenges
- Humanities and Professional Practice
- Industrial Economics
- Introduction to Econometrics
- Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Philosophy
- Mind and World in the History of Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy of Race
- Philosophy of Religion
- Political Philosophy
- Self and Agency in the History of Philosophy
- Self, society, nature, and normativity
- The Mind, The Brain, and Consciousness
- Applied Economics
- Economics Skills and Employability 3
- International Macroeconomics
- Business, Morality, and Markets
- Choice and Decision
- Classical Chinese Philosophy
- Classical Indian Philosophy: Self, Knowledge, and Liberation
- Contemporary Theories of Justice
- Crime and Punishment
- Democratic Theory
- Dissertation: Literature Review
- Dissertation: Policy Project
- Empirical Finance
- Exploring the Hidden Assumptions in Education
- Green Political Thought: Humans and other stories
- Happiness and Wellbeing
- International Trade
- Islamic Philosophy
- Labour Economics
- Philosophical Pessimism
- Philosophy Dissertation
- Philosophy and Ethics in Psychology and AI
- Philosophy of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
- Political Philosophy
- Principles of Finance
- Public Economics
- The Ethics of Belief: Evidence, Truth, and Ideology
- The Ethics of Climate Change
- Theories of Law and Justice
- Topics in Macroeconomics
- Topics in Political Economy