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Claremont McKenna College · Economics

0% of Claremont McKenna College's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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Claremont McKenna College: 0% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

57%Center-left59–74

14%Center42–58

29%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

7 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

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

ECON 109 · Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy68

Economics

A study of moral and economic theories as they relate to public policy. Topics may include the moral and economic implications of governmentally sponsored universal health care, welfare reform, progressive taxation and the redistribution of…

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ECON 187 · The Economics of Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination67

Economics

This class will explore issues of poverty and discrimination from an economist point of view. The first part of the class will focus on understanding the causes and consequences of poverty, along with the different policies that have been…

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ECON 171 · Environmental Economics60

Economics

The course explores the economic foundations for public decision-making regarding environmental quality utilizing tools from intermediate microeconomic theory. The course examines the role of the environment within the theory of market…

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Furthest-right subjects

ECON 102 · Intermediate Macroeconomics33

Economics

The theoretical background for understanding macroeconomic problems and policy options. Topics include evolution of macro thought; the IS-LM system and some alternatives; theories of consumption, investment, and money; unemployment;…

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ECON 142 · Politics and Economics of Natural Resource Policy in Developing Countries35

Economics

This seminar course addresses the question of how countries dependent on natural resources ought to husband these resources and invest the proceeds productively. It employs the policy sciences framework to explore the political and…

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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
Claremont McKenna College · Economics	bias_left_share	0	—	65	—
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.

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