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Liberal Professor: If You Understand Economics, You're Likely to be a Bad Person
Pundit Press ^ | 3/29/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 03/29/2015 9:37:16 AM PDT by rightistight

According to Lisa Wade, a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles, if you have an understandings of Economics, you are likely a bad person.

That was her finding in an article she published this week, titled "ARE ECONOMICS MAJORS ANTI-SOCIAL?" The first word in the piece was simply, "Yep."

Dr. Wade writes that if you have taken classes on Economics, you "are less likely to share, less generous to the needy, and more likely to cheat, lie, and steal."

She largely bases her belief on a study from 2010. In the study, students were asked if they would like to contribute money to a liberal political group or a group that is pushing for lower tuition, possibly by asking for more subsidies from taxpayers.

Students with an understanding of economics were less inclined to donate to these groups than students with other majors. And for that reason, Dr. Wade has declared that they are “anti-social.”

...Further, she says that Econ majors need to take ““balancing” classes, ones that present a different kind of economics.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: california; college; economics; leftwingnuts; lisawade; losangeles; money; occidental; occidentalcollege; wallstreetjournal; wsj
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To: rightistight
If You Understand Economics, You're Likely to be a Bad Person

If your name is Lisa Wade, you are more likely to be a socialist idiot.

41 posted on 03/29/2015 11:34:51 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
She has degrees in sociology and human sexuality.

making her an authority in the field of economics.

42 posted on 03/29/2015 11:38:24 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Dilbert San Diego
What are we really saying?

That morons that pretend to care, regardless of the consequences, are better people than those that are smart enough not to give money to people that want to screw them over.

Ms. Wade's cultural marxism reminds me of the Brown Shirts that would kick the crap out of cabaret patrons for not feeding Hitler's ambitions.

43 posted on 03/29/2015 11:47:48 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: ripley

Do you mean buffalo chips? We could also use pasture pies, road apple’s and smart pills, but none of those come close to the real depth of stupidity in this little professorship.


44 posted on 03/29/2015 11:48:22 AM PDT by jstaff
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To: rightistight
Sounds like Family Ties left a big impression on her.
45 posted on 03/29/2015 11:54:34 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Popman

The Marxism and economy are an oxymoron and are mutually exclusive.


46 posted on 03/29/2015 12:05:12 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: windsorknot

Sounds like she needs a couple of good economics classes to round out HER BACKGROUND,


47 posted on 03/29/2015 12:07:55 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: rightistight

Liberal Professor Projects Liberals with knowledge of economics.


48 posted on 03/29/2015 12:21:40 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Lurker
You're right.... I did forget about Coolidge. Calvin Coolidge would not run for a second term. While his intentions were noble, he left the presidency to the great genius, Herbert Hoover. I Calvin Coolidge were president instead of Hoover, there would have been no Great Depression, no Hitler Reich, no World War II and no god else the bad things that happened to the world.
49 posted on 03/29/2015 12:26:27 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: rightistight

Oh man, what brainwashing. These people NEVER quit, do they? Words escape me to describe this person. Now, everyone trying to make money not only loses half their money to the government, they’re branded as being “anti-social” for slaving to make the money to give to the government in the first place. Satan is at the wheel.


50 posted on 03/29/2015 12:26:40 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Zeneta

Thanks Zeneta.


51 posted on 03/29/2015 12:33:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: rightistight

The stupid, it burns.


52 posted on 03/29/2015 12:51:25 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: rightistight

Ever noticed the most off the wall ideas or statements are by people whose names in these stories are either followed after or preceded by “a professor at such and such university?”


53 posted on 03/29/2015 1:18:39 PM PDT by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Marie Harf’s sister?


54 posted on 03/29/2015 1:22:47 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: rightistight

They are less liberal... So she accuses them of lyung, cheating and stealing?? (all liberal traits)


55 posted on 03/29/2015 1:24:28 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: rightistight
Uh huh. A lot of people who failed freshman calculus will tell you the topic isn't important. A lot of them end up in Sociology or Psychology.

"Yes, I am enlightened by a special, superior kind of knowledge you don't have to hit the books for, just meditate on your own internal greatness." That isn't someone you want designing your bridge or doing your appendectomy.

56 posted on 03/29/2015 1:25:34 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: rightistight

More hate speech from the Left.


57 posted on 03/29/2015 1:34:30 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: rightistight
if you have an understandings of Economics, you are likely a bad person.

Free market economics is in direct conflict with the Marxian exploitation theory, government interventionism, and Keynesianism, that libtards worship.So if you understand that, you are a bad person.

58 posted on 03/29/2015 1:50:58 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: dhs12345
The Marxism and economy are an oxymoron and are mutually exclusive.

Marxian Economics is certainly a theory...that doesn't mean it works or is agreeable to any one with half a brain...

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marxian-economics.asp

59 posted on 03/29/2015 2:17:22 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

So she’s qualified to be a sex toy for oppressed minorities...


60 posted on 03/29/2015 3:10:10 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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