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专业：历史经济学 Offer：牛津大学 杜伦大学 约克大学 诺丁汉大学星 级：五星 Is one of the useful lessons of the Great Depression that the European periphery cannot restore its competitiveness whilst fixed to an overvalued currencywithout inducing a debt deflation trap? A study of economics and history can help illuminate such contemporary challenges. United in their drive to understand how societies function and develop, they can be highly complementary disciplines. For example, not only can historians derive unique and more quantifiable insights through the use of economic tools of analysis, but economists also must often have a historical awareness in order to identify the assumptions that their abstract model or theory rests on. Economics appeals to me because of its precise and logical approach to the dissection of human behaviour and societal issues, which can be harnessed asa pragmatic guide to action. Thebreadth and depth of this explanatory powerwasrevealed tomethrough attendingDebateChambers Economics Summer School, which enabled me to engage with a vast array of ideas from indifference curves to Marxs labour theory of value to Chinascurrencymanipulation,all illuminating someof theforceswhich affectour livesor controlour decisions.Moreover,readingTheWorldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner helped contextualise many of these theories.Duetomyfascinationwithhowgovernmentinterventioncanalter market processes, I have researched state capitalisms success in fostering economic development in East Asia for my Extended Project, leadingme to books likeAtulKohlis StateDirectedDevelopment.The project hasmademe realise the immensepotentialof state investment to induce rapid industrialisation when tied to focused and technocratic political institutions, but also the challenges raised from suppressed domestic demand and export reliance, as in China. My independent research skills have been further enhanced through writing both my RES competition essay A breakup of the euro