What can we say about economics degree?
It is a really old science, you can find information in the ancient Greek (Before Christ) with Aristoteles who talks about human products and politics.
Since industrialization, we have changed the way how we manage the economy and improve it. Besides, we have realized that if a big country has a problem, probably this problem will affect the rest of the other countries like the crisis of 1929, That is the importance of the degree for the world.
Economics is like an idiom, you can talk about it with anyone in any place or country. However, it is very important for humanity because we can solve problems together as a world and we can help each other in some specifics problems.
The importance of the economics in Colombia is very broad and we could talk about different moments in history but, in my opinion, the key point is in 1990 when Colombia changed the economic system from agricultural goods to oil as the main export good.This fact made us a capitalist country. Therefore, is very important for Colombia to have good economist who can interpret in a good way how economy is working. In comparison with USA, our economy is like a baby but with excellent economist, the economy in our country can grow.
Now days, with this pandemic, the global economy is in trouble because people are not working and if we don´t work, we can´t get things that we use in our delay life.
As a PUJ student, I am improving my life, learning more and more how to use the tools that the university has given to me for doing well to my country. Besides, PUJ student usually learn a lot of values that help us to take good decisions. We always need first to changed our lives and then we can help to change the society that`s our active role as a PUJ student.
I have two funny anecdotes in my educative process. The first was in my second semester I was in a conference with the ministry of finance and I wanted a photo with him but he has a lot of security and I decided run towards him and it was funny because security start to talks with the radios and they didn´t know what to do but I got my photo with him. The second was like in my fourth semester I was in a presentation with the bank of the republic and i was thinking like "I am the less intelligent in my group" because all my friends are very intelligent but i was the best in the presentation, we was talking about consumer behavior and it is a hard topic to explain.
You usually practice economics in your delay life, for instance, when people talk about a company which have many employees but they are unnecessary because there isn´t nothing to do, in economics degree we say that this problem is called marginal product which decrease when you give an additional unit of labor ( one more person). There are a lot of examples about things that you usually do but you don´t know which is the theorical name.
If you like to learn about common problems with money and people, I will always recommend my career, is a good option for you.