Harvard Students Walk Out of Greg Mankiw’s Econ Class, Pine for Keynes

November 8th, 2011

Oh to be a Harvard undergrad:

Students who participated in the walkout wrote in the open letter that they had hoped to be presented with a balanced view of economics in a required introductory course. “Instead, we found a course that espouses a specific—and limited—view of economics that we believe perpetuates problematic and inefficient systems of economic inequality in our society today. There is no justification for presenting Adam Smith’s economic theories as more fundamental or basic than, for example, Keynesian theory.”