Can you please give me some insight into writing a good UCAS personal statement for an Economics application?

For a good personal statement, we are looking to see enthusiasm for the subject, wide reading and motivation. Focus on the subject rather than extra-curricular activities, but non-academic information can be if it supports your academic achievements. You will need to evidence your ability to apply academic theories/ideas to what is happening in the news, work experience, part time work, etc.

You may find the following reading useful:

• The Economist magazine
• Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
• Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner - Freakonomics
• Leonard Mlodinow - The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
• Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
• Prov Avinash Dixit (Princeton University and former Warwick Economcs Profess and Head of Department) and Prof Barry Nalebuff (Yale) - The Art of Strategy

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• Undergraduate degrees at Warwick
• Postgraduate courses at Warwick
• International qualifications

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