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MRes in Economics?

Hello,
I am accepted at the MRes in Economics at the LSE. Does anyone no about it (other than the official stuff they say on the website), ie global level (compared with that of the MSc), teachers, or any relevant information..
Since it's quite a new curriculum (only two years old), it's hard to get information about it..

Thanks

Reply 1

Musafir_85

KarlMarx

Hello,
I am accepted at the MRes in Economics at the LSE. Does anyone no about it (other than the official stuff they say on the website), ie global level (compared with that of the MSc), teachers, or any relevant information..
Since it's quite a new curriculum (only two years old), it's hard to get information about it..

Thanks

whats the full of mres?

Reply 2

KarlMarx

OP

Musafir_85

whats the full of mres?

Master of Research (sorry, I should have mentioned it). It aims to prepare students to enter a PhD..

Reply 3

Musafir_85

btw do u like communism?
no offence.

Reply 4

KarlMarx

OP

Musafir_85

btw do u like communism?
no offence.

Actually I'm not very good at finding nicknames, and for some reason KarlMarx was the first name that hit my mind..
Maybe deep down in my heart I do like communism :wink:

Reply 5

Ziad82

Hi KarlMarx,

I have an offer for the MRes/PhD programme as well. It is certainly much more respected than the MSc Economics and the AdCom is much more selective when it comes to this course. Basically LSE are stopping the old MPhil/PhD degree, and the only way to do a PhD at LSE is through the MRes/PhD, either Track 1 if you are coming straight from undergrad., or Track 2 if you have a decent master's degree. Lecturers are the best you can get in LSE, and obviously you do the most advanced courses that they have. What are you interested in by the way (in terms of research)?

Reply 6

mobb_theprequel

15

Collectivisation, I suspect. :wink:

Reply 7

Splinter

mobb_theprequel

Collectivisation, I suspect. :wink:

not hugely amusing :wink:

btw, karl marx was far more than a communist, but a rather emminent economist, so the name is highly relevant here. In fact marx had some amazing stuff on command economies.
Have you read Das Kapital? Its very interesting.

Reply 8

mobb_theprequel

15

Splinter

not hugely amusing :wink:

btw, karl marx was far more than a communist, but a rather emminent economist, so the name is highly
relevant here. In fact marx had some amazing stuff on command economies.
Have you read Das Kapital? Its very interesting.

Yeah, that joke really was scraping the barrel. Haven't read Das Kapital, but I have read an introduction to Marx's Early Writings and a few other things.

Reply 9

KarlMarx

OP

Thanks for your answer Ziad82, it is quite useful.
The only thing which may still prevent me from accepting their offer is money (I have to tell them my final answer by this Monday).. LSE is terribly expensive, compared to my other options. But I don't think it will prevent me from accepting at the end.
In terms of research I do not have a precise center of interest ; however I have a taste for Macroeconomics. For example I studied Growth Theory this year and found it extremely interesting..

As for you, did you accept their offer?

Reply 10

KarlMarx

OP

I think that very, very few people in the world have ever read Das Kapital :smile:

Quite a huge work..

Reply 11

Ziad82

KarlMarx

Thanks for your answer Ziad82, it is quite useful.
The only thing which may still prevent me from accepting their offer is money (I have to tell them my final answer by this Monday).. LSE is terribly expensive, compared to my other options. But I don't think it will prevent me from accepting at the end.
In terms of research I do not have a precise center of interest ; however I have a taste for Macroeconomics. For example I studied Growth Theory this year and found it extremely interesting..

As for you, did you accept their offer?

I have accepted their offer already. Because I live in London, they asked me if I wanted to go and meet some of their faculty and PhD students, and I did, and was very impressed. The school is small but very dynamic. And the PhD students are their number one priority. Plus there is very active research in the areas I am interested in. So straight after the visit, I accepted the offer. Before that visit I was still in doubt between Oxford and LSE.

What other options do you have by the way? and where did you study as an undergrad?

Reply 12

KarlMarx

OP

Ziad82

I have accepted their offer already. Because I live in London, they asked me if I wanted to go and meet some of their faculty and PhD students, and I did, and was very impressed. The school is small but very dynamic. And the PhD students are their number one priority. Plus there is very active research in the areas I am interested in. So straight after the visit, I accepted the offer. Before that visit I was still in doubt between Oxford and LSE.

What other options do you have by the way? and where did you study as an undergrad?

Actually I have been studying for two years at a french "Grande Ecole" (the Ensae : National School of Statistics and Economic Administration) until now. The normal curriculum at this school is a three-year curriculum, but students are given the possibility to study in a foreign university in replacement of the final year.
One of the options I am given is consequently to stay at the Ensae next year, and to apply directly to a PhD thereafter ; but I think that doing an English speaking Master first is a very good experience.

In addition to the LSE, I applied to the MSc in Economics at the Pompeu Fabra university, in Barcelona, which has a good reputation - not as internationally renowned as the LSE, though, in spite of the quality of its teaching. I have been accepted, but the LSE MRes in Economics is a better choice in my case, since it is more directed towards research.

I am therefore very likely to accept the offer of the LSE ; I will give them my final answer by Monday.

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