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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

64%Center-left59–74

9%Center42–58

18%Center-right26–41

9%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

11 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 154 · Economics of Discrimination67

Economics

Starting from Becker's classic book on the economics of discrimination, this course will focus on issues of difference and discrimination accociated with race, gender, or nation of birth, focusing particularly on credit and housing markets,…

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ENVECON 105 · Data Tools for Sustainability and the Environment67

Economics

This course introduces students to data analysis for use in addressing sustainable business and policy questions. By the end of this course, students will be able to analyze real-world data within the Jupyter/Python programming environment.…

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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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Furthest-right subjects

ECON C181 · International Trade17

Economics

The theory of international trade and its applications to tariff protection. This course is equivalent to UGBA 118 ; students will not receive credit for both courses.

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ECON 161 · Economics of Transition: Eastern Europe32

Economics

Economic behavior under socialism; socialism vs. capitalism. Transition challenges. Stylized facts of transition. Political economy of reform strategies. Liberalization and the macroeconomic environment. Privatization policies and…

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ECON 260A · Comparative Economics33

Economics

New issues raised by transition for economics. Political economy of reform: speed, sequencing, reform design, political economy of privatization. Allocative changes: speed of sectoral reallocation, price liberalization, output fall 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
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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