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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Economics

0% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

0%20%
University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 0% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
20%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
20%Center-right26–41
40%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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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

AREC 331 · Agricultural Commodity Policy60

Economics

Economics rationale for and effects of historical and current policies and programs for the agricultural commodity sector including price and income support, supply management, and crop insurance. Relationship of domestic commodity policy…

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Furthest-right subjects

ECON 421 · International Economics17

Economics

Balance of payments, exchange rate determination, monetary and fiscal policies, monetary arrangements, comparative advantage, tariff and nontariff trade distortions, protection arguments, and regional integration with analyses based upon…

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ECON 621 · International Economics22

Economics

Comparative advantage, trade migration, commodity composition of trade, protectionist devices, protectionist arguments, trade liberalization, U.S. trade policy.Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.

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ECON 622 · International Finance38

Economics

Analysis of macroeconomic adjustment in open economies, with attention to foreign exchange markets, balance of payments, international policy coordination, integration of world capital markets, liberalization of non-market economies and the…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Economicsbias_left_share0—110—
Economicsbias_left_share1.51.3 – 1.88,432—
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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