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Williams College · Economics

10.1% of Williams College's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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Williams College: 10.1% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100
10%Left75–91
65%Center-left59–74
25%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
20 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 105 · Gender in the Global Economy79

Economics

Cross-listings: WGSS 211 Secondary Cross-listing This course will present a feminist economic analysis of the global economy, and some of the urgent issues facing women in the Global South. The course will start by developing theoretical…

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ECON 216 · Global Crises and Socio-Economic Policies75

Economics

Socio-economic policies (health, education, welfare, jobs) that respond to global crises have evolved over the past four decades. For most of the last century, macroeconomic priorities in developing countries constrained the potential of…

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ECON 213 · Introduction to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics67

Economics

Cross-listings: ENVI 213 / CAOS 213 Primary Cross-listing We'll use economics to provide one perspective on reasons humans harm the environment and overuse natural resources, and what we can do about it. We'll study climate change,…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Williams College Economics has 15 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Williams College · Economicsbias_left_share10.1—99—
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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