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 ...
Meadow muffins.
We'll I guess that you could argue that USSR had an economy. Certainly not comparable to a Free Market thriving economy like in the US.... which helped us to win the Cold War.
Communism strangles innovation and kills incentive and motivation which produce a healthy economy. So in that respect and an analogy: a dying man lying in his death bed is still alive. :)
“...but none of those come close to the real depth of stupidity in this little professorship.”
Beautiful!
IMHO
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