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...Harvard students don’t hate the class just because it’s boring. The hundreds of first years in Ec 10 find readings largely limited to the opinions of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein, who spent his glory days designing “voodoo economics” for President Reagan. Occasionally (perhaps through an oversight) an opposing view will slip into the sparse coursepack, but this is rare...
...April 10, the Committee on Undergraduate Education wisely voted down Professor Stephen A. Marglin’s proposal to offer an alternative course to Martin Feldstein’s Ec 10. The idea of an alternative Ec 10 is well-intentioned but a cop-out; Feldstein has to go. When the Economics Department makes its final decision on April 22, they should bypass Marglin’s proposal and resolve to choose a new professor to teach...
Everyone but the most devoted readers of the Salient know that Feldstein teaches a distorted introduction to economics, passing off his personal beliefs as economic law. A substantial proportion of the articles in the Ec 10 sourcebook were penned by Feldstein himself and on many topics, only one side of the debate is included (such as his famous privatizing social security lecture). The course is so rife with bias that even The New York Times couldn’t resist a little Feldstein bashing: “Thousands of Harvard undergraduates have received a decidedly anti-tax, free-market-leaning...
...requires teaching the basic theories that economists agree on while briefly mentioning those views which are more contentious and noting them as such. And it should foster some interest in studying economics further—or at least not brutally crush that interest while it is young and fragile. Feldstein has proven himself less than able on all these counts since he began teaching...
...professor who distorts the subject he is meant to introduce to students is simply not fit to teach an introductory course. We don’t need a well-taught Ec 10 and a Feldstein-taught Ec 10. We need a well-taught Ec 10, period...