這路子是把economics弄成business analytics / data science 用.
然而講technical quantitative modeling/algo的總不及Stat/CS的熟, 而subject matter knowledge不及business / marketing的人來......
至於講casual inference.....well, industry現在還不怎value這個, 能predict就行, 又不是學術界, who really care why it is like that? 能賺錢就行.
所以個人認為把economic / econometrics degree弄成business analytics / data science類的用, master尚可但PhD損失的就大了.