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University of California-Los Angeles · Economics

0% of University of California-Los Angeles'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-Los Angeles: 0% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

20%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

40%Center-left59–74

20%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

20%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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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

Economics 284 · Soviet Economic Theory and Organization100

Economics

Lecture, three hours. Overall strategy of planning used by USSR planners and specific planning methods, interpreted broadly to cover not only instructions and objectives but also institutional arrangements. Intended and unintended outcomes of methods. S/U or letter grading.

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Economics 244 · U.S. Labor Markets and Public Programs since 194067

Economics

Lecture, three hours. Designed for PhD students. Introduction to current research at intersection of labor economics, public economics, and U.S. economic history, focusing on period after 1940. Topics include economic and wage inequality;…

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Economics 402B · Applied Macroeconomics62

Economics

Lecture, three hours. Limited to Master of Applied Economics students. Study of alternative theories of causes of unemployment and inflation, with focus on Keynesian approach to monetary and fiscal policy and modifications and extensions of…

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Furthest-right subjects

Economics 287A · Topics in Development Economics: Economic Problems of Latin America20

Economics

Lecture, three hours. Economic history of Latin America. Great depression, import substitution and industrialization, inflation and growth, free market experiments, and economic integration. May be repeated for credit. S/ U or letter grading.

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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-Los Angeles · Economics	bias_left_share	0	—	155	—
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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