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Make sure your personal statement is top notch. So, read a lot: Broadberry, O'Rourke, and Ferguson, although the latter isn't very popular amongst academics at the department. Here is a reading list I highly recommend you look at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/study/mastersProgrammes/newarrivals.aspx Acemoglu, Broadberry and Rosenthal are especially interesting.
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Understand what reading economic history at masters level is about. Are you more interested in cliometrics (econometric history) or social history? What areas do you want to research? Make sure you speak about this and the direction you want to take your dissertation. Even if you're looking to then go into industry, the dissertation is very important and from what I've been told by a few of my classmates from undergraduate, this is where many students lose marks. Therefore, LSE is really looking for people who know what they want to research. Some of the world's leading economic historians teach there, e.g. Professor Tirthankar Roy who is one of the leading authorities on the economic history of South Asia, especially India. Try and align your research interests with those of current academics.
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Learn about the department and its history. LSE was the first institution, if I remember correctly, to the treat the subject in its own right from both economics and/or history. This means that you focus almost entirely on studying economic history rather than as part of, say, an economics degree (which is more common than you may think).
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Finally, there are a number of important journals and societies that focus on economic history; join them (if you're willing to pay LSE's tuition fees, then you can pay £21 for an annual membership):
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Make sure your personal statement is top notch. So, read a lot: Broadberry, O'Rourke, and Ferguson, although the latter isn't very popular amongst academics at the department. Here is a reading list I highly recommend you look at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/study/mastersProgrammes/newarrivals.aspx Acemoglu, Broadberry and Rosenthal are especially interesting.
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Understand what reading economic history at masters level is about. Are you more interested in cliometrics (econometric history) or social history? What areas do you want to research? Make sure you speak about this and the direction you want to take your dissertation. Even if you're looking to then go into industry, the dissertation is very important and from what I've been told by a few of my classmates from undergraduate, this is where many students lose marks. Therefore, LSE is really looking for people who know what they want to research. Some of the world's leading economic historians teach there, e.g. Professor Tirthankar Roy who is one of the leading authorities on the economic history of South Asia, especially India. Try and align your research interests with those of current academics.
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Learn about the department and its history. LSE was the first institution, if I remember correctly, to the treat the subject in its own right from both economics and/or history. This means that you focus almost entirely on studying economic history rather than as part of, say, an economics degree (which is more common than you may think).
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Finally, there are a number of important journals and societies that focus on economic history; join them (if you're willing to pay LSE's tuition fees, then you can pay £21 for an annual membership):
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