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...there is an alternative. Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59 has proposed to teach a one-semester alternative that covers both mainstream economics and their critiques. Ec 10 is two semesters, the fall covering microeconomics and the spring, macroeconomics. While students in Marglin??€™s course would leave the class knowing as much about neoclassical microeconomics as those taking Ec 10, they would also be exposed to current debates between economists. Marglin will even use the same textbook as Feldstein. After the fall semester, students will rejoin Feldstein and Ec 10 in the spring...
...biased courses in the place of one does not serve the needs of students. But if Marglin can meet the criteria to lead such a course, there is no reason not to give unhappy first-years a choice between Ec 10, which hundreds of undergraduates find too politicized, and Marglin??€™s alternative course. There is also no reason such a class should not count for the Core...
...Marglin??€™s alternative won’t turn up in the catalogue any time soon; first it must be approved by the economics department and accepted as a Core, he said...
SHARE was revived this year, after a lapse in interest, by a group of students that includes Marglin??€™s daughter, Jessica M. Marglin...
...even if political affiliation does affect the way one teaches a subject, Summers said, “I think it’s probably the case that Professor Feldstein’s views are closer to the center than certainly Professor Marglin??€™s and probably Professor Rodrik?...