The role of economists is to: understand complicated economic and social processes, intervene to make outcomes better, set policies that have a major effect on society. The Economics major provides an excellent education in the leading theories and concepts involved in modern economics to develop successful business economists. The focus is on the properties of supply and demand networks. Topics include altruism, banking and finance, consumer sentiment, debt, equity, environment, forecasting, free trade, Keynesian recessions, market failures, natural monopolies, optimality, public economics, rates of interest, scarcity, technological change, uncertainty, voluntary unemployment, wage differentials and zero population growth.