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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

12%Far left92–100
29%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
21%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
73 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

GECO 5125 · Comparative Economic Systems100

Economics

This course will discuss the theories and practices of alternative economics systems. We willstart with the early debates about Socialism, and then move on to study the actual historicalpractice of socialism, with a focus on evaluating the…

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LECO 3760 · Comparative Systems100

Economics

This course will discuss the theories and practices of alternative economics systems, with a focus on the actual history of the alternative economics systems. We will start with the early debates about Socialism, and then move on to study…

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GECO 6245 · Advanced Topics in Political Economy96

Economics

This course will survey major issues in contemporary Marxian political economy, with a major emphasis on the use of Marxian theory to develop workable economic research projects on contemporary issues. We will strive for an accurate…

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Furthest-right subjects

LECO 2019 · PE of the Rise of Nationalism22

Economics

This course aims to place the rise of Trumpism, as well as some other right-wing movement across the globe, in a social and historical context. The course will begin with a brief primer on the methods of political economy and a thorough…

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LECO 3022 · An Intellectual History of Neoliberalism (1938-1990)24

Economics

Neoliberalism is a child of the 20th century. As a term that has a particular social life, its origins relate to the concerns of a transnational group of intellectuals who looks to update Western economic liberalism. In this course, we…

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LECO 3420 · The Origins of Capitalism: Debates in History38

Economics

The question of capitalism has been a controversial one since the concept was first used and the capitalist system of production first emerged. The course is organized around the series of debates that have taken place over the last couple…

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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
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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