Economics
This seminar examines the social disadvantage of African American in the United States from the perspectives of economics, though with due attention to sociology, politics and history. The course takes a holistic view of the relevant…
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Brown University · Economics
3.4% of Brown University's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.
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Where Economics courses fall
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Furthest left
Economics
This course shows how an economics lens can be useful in understanding disparities in gender outcomes; how these disparities evolve over the development process; why closing gender gaps matters for development; and the roles of public…
Economics
This course uses economic theory to study the problems of inequality. The emphasis is two-fold: (1) to explain persistent resource disparities between individuals or social groups; and, (2) to assess the welfare effects of various…
Furthest right
None. Brown University Economics has 5 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown University · Economics | bias_left_share | 3.4 | — | 148 | — |
| 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.