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University of California, Berkeley · Economics

1.3% of University of California, Berkeley's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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University of California, Berkeley: 1.3% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

50%Center-left59–74

50%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

2 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

ENVECON 147 · The Economics of the Clean Energy Transition67

Economics

The most promising path to deep decarbonization involves decarbonizing the electricity sector and then electrifying as much as we can – from transportation to buildings to industrial processes. Thus, the electricity sector has a pivotal…

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ECON 133 · Global Inequality and Growth57

Economics

This course provides an introduction to the analysis of economic inequalities and the interplay between inequality and economic growth. It focuses on three sets of core questions: 1) How does inequality evolve over the path of development?…

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Furthest right

None. University of California, Berkeley Economics has 2 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
University of California, Berkeley · Economics	bias_left_share	1.3	—	156	—
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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