Economics
, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. A study of Marxian economic theory, including historical materialism, the role of value, class, exploitation, and accumulation in Marxian…
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University of California-Riverside · Economics
1.7% of University of California-Riverside's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.
0%20%
Where Economics courses fall
13%Far left92–100
13%Left75–91
13%Center-left59–74
50%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
13%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s); graduate standing. Critiques of conventional economic theories and consideration of alternative theories and approaches to issues of aggregate economic growth and instability from Marx to the present.
Economics
, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to the basic principles of economics and their application to problems of environmental quality and natural resource utilization. Emphasis is on the failure of markets as…
Furthest-right subjects
Economics
, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 102 or ECON 103 or ECON 104A or ECON 105A. A comparative analysis of the major trends in Latin American economies in the twentieth century. Includes historical…
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-Riverside · Economics | bias_left_share | 1.7 | — | 115 | — |
| 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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