http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/689960/occupy_updates%3A_occupy_oakland_protesters_hit_by_car%2C_harvard_economics_student_stage_walk-out/
**Alternet - *Harvard students who attend Professor Greg Mankiw's Economics 10 class have staged a walk out "to express our discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory economics course." The students' open letter <http://hpronline.org/campus/an-open-letter-to-greg-mankiw/?mid=51> to Professor Mankiw reads in part: A legitimate academic study of economics must include a critical discussion of both the benefits and flaws of different economic simplifying models. As your class does not include primary sources and rarely features articles from academic journals, we have very little access to alternative approaches to economics. There is no justification for presenting Adam Smith's economic theories as more fundamental or basic than, for example, Keynesian theory...
We are walking out today to join a Boston-wide march protesting the corporatization of higher education as part of the global Occupy movement. Since the biased nature of Economics 10 contributes to and symbolizes the increasing economic inequality in America, we are walking out of your class today both to protest your inadequate discussion of basic economic theory and to lend our support to a movement that is changing American discourse on economic injustice. Professor Mankiw, we ask that you take our concerns and our walk-out seriously.
* Natalia
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