Lucille
01-28-2016, 11:48 AM
The long march through the institutions...
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/01/28/karl-marx-is-the-most-assigned-economist-in-u-s-college-classes/
No wonder most college students are such dumbasses. Where is von Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard? We’re Doomed.
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In case you had any doubts that America’s college campuses are dominated by Godless communists, fresh statistical evidence is at hand.
More than 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the onset of market economy practices in China, “The Communist Manifesto” still ranks among the top three most frequently assigned texts at American universities.
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For instance, a search for “economics” shows Paul Krugman at the top of the list with his iconic “Economics,” which gets a count of 1,081 and score of 89.4. However, Gregory Mankiw’s “Macroeconomics,” doesn’t appear at all under the same search, even though it gets a count of 989 and a teaching score of 87.5.
Karl Marx’s classic receives a count of 3,189 and a score of 99.7. It doesn’t actually show up under economics texts either, as it is generally taught along with philosophy texts such as “The Social Contract,” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; “Leviathan,” by Thomas Hobbes; and “On Liberty,” by John Stuart Mill.
The only books assigned more frequently than “The Communist Manifesto” were “The Elements of Style,” the writing guide by William Strunk which was popularized by E.B. White, and “The Republic,” by Plato.
Among other standouts, “Mein Kampf,” by Adolph Hitler, received a count of 697 and a score of 75.7. “What Is To Be Done,” by Vladimir Lenin received a count of 361 and a teaching score of 45.9.
Here’s a look at the most frequently taught works by notable economists (and others) relating to economics and money:
"Marx was a fool with a large vocabulary of long words. Yet he did have an unacknowledged need to adopt the nonsensical 'dialectic' of Hegel. A parasitical pedant, shiftless and dishonest, he wanted to put in a claim on 'society' solely as a consumer. He embraced Communism because no other theory can be stretched even on paper into promising 'to each according to his needs.'"
--Isabel Paterson (http://www.anoopverma.com/2015/04/isabel-paterson-on-marx-and-marxism.html)
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/01/28/karl-marx-is-the-most-assigned-economist-in-u-s-college-classes/
No wonder most college students are such dumbasses. Where is von Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard? We’re Doomed.
[...]
In case you had any doubts that America’s college campuses are dominated by Godless communists, fresh statistical evidence is at hand.
More than 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the onset of market economy practices in China, “The Communist Manifesto” still ranks among the top three most frequently assigned texts at American universities.
[...]
For instance, a search for “economics” shows Paul Krugman at the top of the list with his iconic “Economics,” which gets a count of 1,081 and score of 89.4. However, Gregory Mankiw’s “Macroeconomics,” doesn’t appear at all under the same search, even though it gets a count of 989 and a teaching score of 87.5.
Karl Marx’s classic receives a count of 3,189 and a score of 99.7. It doesn’t actually show up under economics texts either, as it is generally taught along with philosophy texts such as “The Social Contract,” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; “Leviathan,” by Thomas Hobbes; and “On Liberty,” by John Stuart Mill.
The only books assigned more frequently than “The Communist Manifesto” were “The Elements of Style,” the writing guide by William Strunk which was popularized by E.B. White, and “The Republic,” by Plato.
Among other standouts, “Mein Kampf,” by Adolph Hitler, received a count of 697 and a score of 75.7. “What Is To Be Done,” by Vladimir Lenin received a count of 361 and a teaching score of 45.9.
Here’s a look at the most frequently taught works by notable economists (and others) relating to economics and money:
"Marx was a fool with a large vocabulary of long words. Yet he did have an unacknowledged need to adopt the nonsensical 'dialectic' of Hegel. A parasitical pedant, shiftless and dishonest, he wanted to put in a claim on 'society' solely as a consumer. He embraced Communism because no other theory can be stretched even on paper into promising 'to each according to his needs.'"
--Isabel Paterson (http://www.anoopverma.com/2015/04/isabel-paterson-on-marx-and-marxism.html)