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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was talking about this today.

seeing so many internships and jobs go to "connections" - that econ degree from a T20 won't get you there alone.....[/quote]

And the people with connections getting those covetted finance jobs have art history degrees. Truth.[/quote]

Art History is a major known to be associated with wealth.

The only person I know who majored in it was a semi-famous curator at the National Gallery.

It's been associated with high finance for decades.  Michael Lewis was an art history major when he interviewed for Wall Street.  He wrote about the popularity of economics as a major in Liar's Poker.  That was about the 1980s.[/quote]

Nope.  Michael Lewis was at the London School of Economics (studying economics) when he got the Salomon Brothers job.

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PP.  I'm away from my copy of Liar's Poker right now ... but your comment is splitting hairs a bit.  He was an art history major in undergrad, he talks in his book in vaguely envious ways about being surrounded by economics majors in undergrad, and then there's a part that I believe is about interview advice he got while still a Princeton Art History major.

Here's what Google has to say:

"Michael Lewis, author of the 1989 Wall Street exposé Liar's Poker, famously graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Art History before becoming a successful bond salesman at Salomon Brothers. He often felt like an outsider, noting that finance professionals viewed art history as a "naive" field unsuitable for career building."[/quote]

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