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University of Notre Dame · Economics

1.4% of University of Notre Dame's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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University of Notre Dame: 1.4% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100
7%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
40%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
7%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
15 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

ECON 40415 · Power and Inequality in Labor Markets around the World75

Economics

This is an advanced undergraduate course in labor economics that will feature theoretical and empirical analysis of labor market policies and institutions in high and low-income countries. We will cover topics ranging from unions, minimum…

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ECON 34822 · Development Studies Seminar68

Economics

Taught as AFRS 3000 'Development Studies Seminar' at host institution. An interdisciplinary course, divided in 3 sections which covers: Ugandan Culture and Society, Precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial history; contemporary political and…

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ECON 34505 · Economics of Poverty67

Economics

This course is designed for anyone interested in the challenge of massive and persistent world poverty. The course uses analytical tools from economics to study the determinants and the different dimensions of poverty. We will discuss the…

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Furthest-right subjects

ECON 34150 · The History of Australian Economics20

Economics

This course aims to acquaint students with key developments in the history of Austrian economics. It begins by considering the wider intellectual climate in which the ideas of Austrian economists emerged in the late nineteenth century. It…

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Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Notre Dame · Economicsbias_left_share1.4—219—
Economicsbias_left_share1.51.3 – 1.88,432—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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