Word: ec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show at the U.T. may be sweet to the nice old lady from Des Moines, but to someone in the midst of preparation for an Ec or Physics exam,--it is bittersweet. Everyone is wildly happy through reel after reel. Then a tinge of dewey-eyed sadness and the molasses rolls up and down the aisles in great gooey gobs. The whole thing ought to give even the mildest cynic indigestion for weeks...
...Ec 1 has already been changed, is now two half courses. The probabilities are that it will no longer be as "sprightly" a study in confusion. As for the main criticism levelled against the theory courses, it is hardly serious enough to demand rebuttal. The abstractions, the artificially simplified models, are merely the skeleton which the flesh of facts and complications is later to cover. In an elementary course in physics, for example, there are unreal hypothesis. Friction may be ignored, or no account may be taken of developments in quanta analysis. A subject has to start somewhere...
...contradiction is manifest in the latter part of the editorial. Ec 41, as its catalog title informs us, is meant to be a survey course. The few weeks it devotes to business cycle theory and to international trade are intended for men who are not going to take Ec 43 and Ec 45. As well say that a course in the history of Europe (32) overlaps a history of France (47a) and a course in German history (50). Some of the material is the same. So what...
...Finally, Ec 81 is as capably handled now as it was under Walsh, while no one has ever complained of the excellent manner in which Dr. Swoozy teaches the economics of socialism. All in all, the Ec department is hardly worthy of another Crimson Crusade. Richard B. Wolf...