Quote (Thor123422 @ Oct 20 2017 10:27am)
Economics departments have actually been all but bought wholesale by corporate interests, especially the Kochs.
Your paranoia about liberals in college is unfounded for every department, but the exact opposite for economics.
Orly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_bias_in_academiaQuote
Political scientists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons carried out a survey of professorial politics which was designed to bring the subject back into the "mainstream of sociological inquiry" and to avoid the methodological problems which had plagued other studies during the early 2000s. Introducing their findings, Gross and Simmons specifically singled out recent studies by Gary A. Tobin and Aryeh K. Weinberg,[10] Daniel Klein and Andrew Western,[11] and Rothman, Licther and Nevitte study for methodological problems that "might be traceable to a desire to score political points."[6]:21 Known as the Politics of the American Professoriate (PAP) survey, Gross and Simmons' survey was unlike other recent studies in that it received a relatively high response rate of 51%, corrected for response bias, and surveyed a large sample of nearly 3.000 scholars from representative institutions.[6]:21-24 Gross and Simmons concluded that 44% of their respondents could be classified as liberals, 46% as moderates, and 9 percent as conservatives.[6]:25-26
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