Economics
This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both ECON1703 and PHIL1711. How should we interpret our nation's persistent inequalities when our founding documents assert the equality of all? Concern over…
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Boston College · Economics
6.0% of Boston College's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.
0%20%
Where Economics courses fall
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
83%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
8%Center-right26–41
8%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Furthest-left subjects
Economics
This is a Complex Problem course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take UNAS1725 with this course. This course explores concepts of social, economic, and racial inequality with a focus on the interaction between housing, labor markets,…
Economics
Course offered for Sophomores only.. How does housing affect the lives of Americans? Where you live determines your access to schools, quality of healthcare, fresh food, clean air, parks and recreation, affordable credit, and even how long…
Furthest-right subjects
Economics
Not open to students who have taken ECON2271 This course is an analysis of the foundations of trade and the principle of comparative advantage leading to a sophisticated study of protectionism. Current U.S. protectionist issues will be…
Economics
Innovation and entrepreneurship have been the key drivers behind economic growth across developed economies and even more so in the U.S. However, innovations and entrepreneurism develop under a high degree of risk and uncertainty and, in…
Why this number, in plain words
Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.
Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston College · Economics | bias_left_share | 6.0 | — | 117 | — |
| Economics | bias_left_share | 1.5 | 1.3 – 1.8 | 8,432 | — |
- Formula
- 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
- Interval
- Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.