Post by troutsky on Dec 15, 2011 11:57:55 GMT -7
On Nov. 20 over 70 students walked out of a lecture by Harvard professor Greg Mankiw in protest of his Econ.101 class which teaches a failed economic model in the guise of objective education.
Students all over the country use the texts written by Mankiw to teach a skewed free market fundamentalism as "classical economics". The texts are still used here at UM. I propose we organize some action highlighting these texts and the teachers still preaching this flawed, destructive gospel.
Any students reading this that have any ideas? Others? Here is a link to a good article with references:
www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/14-0
Students all over the country use the texts written by Mankiw to teach a skewed free market fundamentalism as "classical economics". The texts are still used here at UM. I propose we organize some action highlighting these texts and the teachers still preaching this flawed, destructive gospel.
Any students reading this that have any ideas? Others? Here is a link to a good article with references:
www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/14-0