Sex, Drugs and Economics: Why study economics? Uber edition...

I've written a large (and growing) number of posts about opportunities for economics graduates in tech companies (see the list at the end of this post). But what do those graduates do for the tech firms? This PBS New Hour video explains what economists do at Uber:

Like that video, most of the discussion you see online is about jobs for economics PhD graduates. But in my experience there's plenty of opportunity for students with an economics undergraduate major. Also, there's plenty of value for students who are not doing an economics major (or minor) to pick up some useful skills by taking one or more economics papers. Employers value highly the types of skills that economics teaches, including the ability to ask critical questions, to work with data, and to understand human behaviour.

[HT: Marginal Revolution]