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...After that lecture I presented students with the range of evidence and showed Feldstein's estimates to be at the high end of the range," says section leader Perry G. Mehrling...
Hamish C. Stewart, a section leader, says Feldstein "presented a figure as a consensus view and as something that arose out of evidence. I told my class that different people had found different numbers and no hard conclusions could be made from that data...
However, Lawrence B. Lindsey, head of sections for the course, says Feldstein's presentation of his view on social security was not unusual. He notes that professors with a wide variety of views lecture to Soc Anal 10 and that much of the material they present is disputed to a lesser on greater extent...
...Feldstein, who is teaching Social Analysis 10 for the first time this fall has already drawn fire from section leaders for his decision to eliminate the radical section, from Social Analysis...
...Feldstein has argued that an introductory course should concentrate on the mainstream view and that students can learn alternate economic models later. "I want students to learn what I call the consensus view, where the vast, vast majority of economists are," he said last fall...