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40 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 12h \ parent \ on: Are software engineers more likely to be socialist? AskSN
He probably means from other humanities or social science courses.
It's rare for economics to be required specifically and, as bad as mainstream econ can be, econ courses are not likely to directly advocate communism.
I'm not exactly unbiased, but I think at least one econ course should be required of every college graduate.
Since we justify public funding of education by saying it's required to have informed citizens, we should at least train them in the subject most useful for understanding how the world works.
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I've always suspected that's precisely why it's not required.
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Intro to microeconomics should be a requirement
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Most intro courses, at least for micro, are largely free market oriented. In part that's just because it's easier to teach the principles that way, sort of like introductory physics being frictionless.
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Even beyond teaching free market principles, I just think it's useful for people to practice thinking through economic logic, like the effect of taxes and tariffs.
You don't have to agree with everything, but at least you should have some basic practice thinking through first and second order effects, and realizing that the world is dynamic and that people will behaviorally respond to policy.
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