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The New School · Economics

18.1% of The New School's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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The New School: 18.1% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100
24%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
33 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

GECO 6297 · Feminist Economics91

Economics

Feminist economics might be imagined as a way of radically reconceptualizing and reorienting the study of economics rather than just an approach to make gender inequalities visible. Taking such a position, this course surveys foundational…

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GECO 5035 · Political Economy of Gender: Theory and Policy83

Economics

This course proceeds from the premise that “building a theory ofwomen's liberation around the category of ‘women’ … is a mistake,”(Vogel 1973). Instead, we will expand our understanding of genderbeyond the category of “women” to investigate…

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LECO 2015 · An Introduction To Marx's Capital82

Economics

Karl Marx published Das Kapital 154 years ago as a critique of the capitalist mode of production. Why should we read it today? This course provides an introduction to Marx’s major work, The Capital volume I (1867) to rethinking its unique…

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Furthest right

None. The New School Economics has 33 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
The New School · Economicsbias_left_share18.1—182—
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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