The correct answer is neither. Really smart people dont have to go to college to become smart, they use it as a supplement. People need to learn that when you go to college to learn you will only be learning what other people want you to learn.
I believe I read an article that indicated that economists could very nearly predict the past nowadays... it didn't seem to cite any sources though....
My impressions and experience with people of an engineering mindset through education is they become a linear thinker, redundant in execution and proclivity to minutae. These qualities are important in particular instances in business at particular times, but what a drag to get things done. An economics major may know business, but do they know the customer? Probably all things being equal in business, the economics major would have a higher net profit.
econ classes are a joke, yes... im an engineer and agree with the previous poster, i could get an job an econ major could get, my bs skills are strong
I was an engineering major and Im currently at grad school studying economics. Engineering majors tend to dissect large problems into much smaller ones. Economics tends to look at whole economies like they are all interlinked. I would say economics can be a more difficult subject because there are so many variables to consider.
LOL !! Good one ! But smartest people are "industrial engineers". In good "old Europe" ( to use a phrase by ex-defense secretary Rumsfeld ) it´s an interdiscplinary course of studies ( 70 % economics, 30 % engineering[machinery, electrotechnology, proces engineering or chemistry] )... Personally, I measured the smartness of people by using the "hate barometer" => the more other fellow students felt someone´s superiority, the more they hated the "smarties"...he, he, he...