Interdisciplinary Ph.D Program in Economics

The Department participates in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program. The central feature of the Interdisciplinary Program is that students have a major discipline, called the coordinating discipline, and a minor discipline, called the codiscipline. Students who want to emphasize economics will choose it as their coordinating discipline; and then choose a co-discipline from a number of different academic areas, including mathematics, sociology, and the Social Science Consortium.

The Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in economics spans traditional boundaries among disciplines. The goal of the Department is to help students develop knowledge and skills for independent research on the fundamental questions of the present and the future. The world of the future will require scholars with a global approach to problem solving. The program is designed to provide self-directed students with academic training at the highest level, while allowing their participation as colleagues in research of fundamental importance. The Department’s tradition of Institutional, Post Keynesian, and other heterodox scholarship is particularly well-suited to such an interdisciplinary approach.

Admissions and other information can be found here

Revised Sept. 2007

Department of Economics, 211 Haag Hall, University of Missouri-Kansas City 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64110 U.S.A
Phone: (816) 235-1314 Fax: (816) 235-2834, E-mail: economics@umkc.edu