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Students for a Humane And Responsible Economics’ proposal to offer a new class taught by Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59 as an alternative to Ec 10 is not the best solution to the problems with the current course (News, “Petition Argues For Alternative To Ec 10 Course”, March 3). Fixing Ec 10 by balancing the readings in the sourcebook, stating the assumptions that lead to politically controversial conclusions, and providing students with more of an opportunity to interact with and question the material would be more effective...
Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59, a Marxist, laughably promises to “provide a more balanced approach” to Ec 10 than the conservative Keynesian (or moderate Republican) Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...
...shouldn’t, and now 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...
Michael Y. Lee ’02-’03 and Jessica M. Marglin ’06, a first year in Dudley House, are members of SHARE. Kenyon S.M. Weaver ’03, a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House, was publisher of Fifteen Minutes...
Stephen A. Marglin...