FM My name is Finn McEvoy and I graduated from the University of Bristol this year with a bachelor’s degree in economics. I’m originally from a small town in Dorset and as part of my degree I spent a year abroad in Copenhagen, where I’ve recently returned to live.
FM I first realised my love for economics during the summer after GCSEs, before beginning sixth form. The spark that ignited my interest was Levitt and Dubner’s book Freakonomics. I was drawn in by the methodological and intriguing — if reductive — way that it modelled the world around us. As a side note, I would warn against talking about the book in a personal statement — I’ve heard from an admissions officer that it’s become a huge cliché. Nevertheless, it had me hooked. From there, I moved onto Esther Dufloand Ha-Joon Chang, reading about economics’ empirical revolution in Poor Economics and alternatives to orthodox economic thinking in Economics: A User’s Guide — two books I’d highly recommend.
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