Economics and Applied Operations Research

[ace589]

My undergrad was Software Engineering and Mathematics.

My Masters was Industrial Engineering where 9/10 courses were operations research.  One of my interdisciplinary research courses included a resource economics portion, which I greatly enjoyed.

Please also take a look at my profile eval in the business thread.

After much deep thought and looking around I am interested in a Phd in the applied operations research and decision science areas.  

One school defined economics as "Decision making with limited resources"  which would imply it to be an area of applied operations research.

Viewing the Phd profiles of students at the universities for which I intend to apply, many are from a mathematics background.

My question is whether economics would be a good fit and what your experience in such programs and industry would suggest?  

I am considering taking graduate level Intermediate micro and macro before applying to make sure that a career in Economics is right for me.

 

Edited September 17, 2015 by ace589
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