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New York University · Economics

2.4% of New York University's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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New York University: 2.4% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
20%Center-left59–74
40%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
40%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 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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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-UA 2 · Introduction to Microeconomics65

Economics

Prerequisite: Algebra and Calculus ( MATH-UA 9 ) or equivalent. Focuses on individual economic decision-makers—households, business firms, and government agencies—and how they are linked together. The emphasis is on decision making by…

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ECON-UA 366 · Markets with Frictions58

Economics

In this class, we will study the equilibrium and efficiency properties of markets in which there are information frictions—in the sense that market participants have limited information regarding the quality and price of various goods—and…

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Furthest-right subjects

ECON-UA 207 · Ethics and Economics17

Economics

Study of the interface between ethical and economic theories. Specific topics covered include a brief overview of various ethical ideas, an analysis of the ethical presuppositions of modern economic theory (especially welfare economics),…

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ECON-UA 9238 · International Economics17

Economics

The course develops a systematic understanding of the key areas of international economics theory namely, analysis of trade (comparative advantage, factor endowments, etc.), analysis of the welfare costs of trade barriers, the discussion of…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
New York University · Economicsbias_left_share2.4—41—
Economicsbias_left_share1.51.3 – 1.88,432—
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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