Me­dia

How modern economics answers important societal questions

In an in­ter­view with the Fi­nanz und Wirtschaft, Chair­man Ralph Ossa ex­plains what con­sti­tute eco­nom­ics as a dis­ci­pline and how the De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ics en­ables stu­dents to con­tribute to solv­ing the cen­tral chal­lenges of our time: achiev­ing eco­log­i­cal sus­tain­abil­i­ty, man­ag­ing the dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tion, over­com­ing the glob­al­iza­tion cri­sis, re­duc­ing pover­ty and in­equal­i­ty and deal­ing with pop­ulism and ex­trem­ism. To an­swer these ques­tions, the de­part­ment of­fers stu­dents a sol­id method­olog­i­cal train­ing and the abil­i­ty to re­duce com­plex prob­lems to their es­sen­tial com­po­nents and to an­a­lyze them con­cise­ly.

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