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Revision as of 20:47, 22 May 2007
The Economics Department is one of Columbia's largest departments.
Top professors include Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Edmund Phelps, and Glenn Hubbard, and what economics major could possibly forget Sunil Gulati or Susan Elmes.
It currently doesn't have its own building, but this will change with the completion of Prentice Hall. Most faculty currently have offices on the 10th floor of IAB.
The department has recently been expanding greatly. In 2005 it hired 20 professors at once.
Many students become econ majors in order to please their parents or to boost their chances of getting a toolish job in a field like i-banking.
