Economics

Far from supporting a scheme the likes of which countries such as Germany are glad to abandon, the University should take a strong stance against well-meaning intents to institutionalize what in effect amounts to “taking away” — not “giving back.”

Consider it a challenge — or a devil’s advocate stance — for those going to work in finance to break the mold that has brought you to this point and to be that painful-but-necessary thorn in the side of your future firm from day one.

Princeton does not require that its undergraduates take courses in any particular department, and so Berger’s call for an economics requirement reads as an assumption that the discipline is more valuable to the world than others.

Princeton is remiss for not requiring students to study basic economic theory during their four years at the University.