I have basic knowledge of economics, but I am more interested in the relationship between economics and history (historical materialism) and economics as an ideological justification. I would have been no good at economics A-level because I am uninterested in statistical analysis. Having said this, I don't find concepts such as public choice theory, the invisible hand or methodological individualism particularly difficult, and we were required an understanding of these for Politics. HSPS does not offer economics, so your suggestion that I would be 'studying' those philosophers is firstly wrong (I will have little choice apart from with the module on history of political thought) and unfair because I understand these philsophers well without a formally economic background. I actually feel economics would have been a hindrance, as I am not critiquing Marxism from its economic possibility, I am analysing it's political and social impact. (Human social and political sciences)...