Word: ec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that." Or, "No, wait. Don't drink that. The best thing for you, if you're really thirsty is this sand, no, seriously, you just take some of it like this and.." I wonder if I might have better luck if I turned to someone in Chem 20 or Ec 10 and told them that the system they want to become a part of is not really practicable, equitable, or even desirable, and that it might not last too long in its present form. The problem is a conflict in two dimensions. I might be trying to convince...
...People in Ec 10 are infinitely better off than people who are not taking the course," Case said this week." "A lot of people have realized that taking Ec courses and concentrating in Economics is much better than concentrating in English for getting...
Career-consciousness, though, seems to play a considerably less important role in attracting people to Ec 10 than simple "general interest." Students currently enrolled in the course contacted by The Crimson this week appeared unanimous in their regard of EC 10--a broad, often-less-than-coherent survey of economic thought and analysis from a primarily neoclassical viewpoint--as "necessary...
Paralleling the sustained growth of the popularity of Ec 10 has been a disproportionate increase in the number of Economics concentrators. According to Case, many individuals are motivated to concentrate in the field for largely the same reasons that attract them to Ec 10, the department's only introductory offering. The ever-increasing number of students who in their freshman or sophomore years have somehow felt compelled to take Ec 10 later decide to stay on in the Economics Department...
Case, who correlates the jump in Ec 10 enrollment with the worsening condition of the American economy over the past several years, feels that enrollment will probably fall off abruptly when the economy begins its recovery. Signs of this eventual fall-off are already apparent--enrollment in Ec 10 actually peaked three years ago, and has declined, though only slightly, ever since...