Economics
Key issues and episodes in American economic history, such as the sources of economic growth, slavery, and the nineteenth-century southern economy. Populism and the rise of regulation, as well as macroeconomic history.
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University of California-Santa Barbara · Economics
0% of University of California-Santa Barbara'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
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
33%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%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
The objective of this course is to integrate and apply the economic insights learned in the major to various topics of real-world relevance. Topics are presented from theoretical and empirical perspectives, and ethical considerations will…
Economics
Theory of static and dynamic labor demand, including models of implicit contracts. Effects of minimum wage laws and immigration on wages and employment. Monopsony-based models of imperfect competition and firm wage effects. Theory and…
Furthest-right subjects
None. University of California-Santa Barbara Economics has 4 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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-Santa Barbara · Economics | bias_left_share | 0 | — | 180 | — |
| 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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