Ec10 Walkout

Students walk out of Professor N. Gregory Mankiw's Economics 10 class on Wednesday in solidarity with the Occupy Movement and Occupy Oakland.

Link to article:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/2/mankiw-walkout-economics-10/

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[maxguarda]

What an idiot on 1:07. "Not a constructive way to voice their criticism". How then? Send a letter to Larry Summers and ask him to save USA from the mess he made? These are desperate times, think about the rest of your country, you guys are in a CRISIS now. It's too late to be nice. If a change won't come from Mr. Obama (our dearest Wall Street Puppet) then it has to come from the people. Go Occupy Wall Street. Greetings from an american living in Chile.

[maxguarda]

@Tanny0103 Well that's just logical. I mean, how can you expect your country to save itself from a 14 trillion debt with China and an inminent crisis when even its "intellectual elite" is unable to think critically and see what's truly wrong with America? Probably you belong to America's wealthiest 0.1% and thus you are unable that something is terribly wrong with the rest of the people in you country but well... who cares right? Let's just save our own asses ;) Go #OccupyWallStreet.

[fountainherz]

@migkillertwo

You beat me to it!

These kids are walking out of an _introductory_ economics course, when 1) some of them outright admit they don't know economics (if they don't know econ, how do they "know" his positions/what he's teaching is bad?) and 2) haven't paid attention.

[migkillertwo]

@2indulgent "The old economic assumptions which often involve viewing other human beings as exploitable commodities "

That is not how the economics profession works. Try cracking open an actual economics book that wasn't written 150 years ago by an obscure, grandiose hack and you might learn a thing or two.

[migkillertwo]

Jesus Christ. Yes, the children of millionaires are the proletariat. They are the oppressed, they are the ones who need cushy govt. jobs.

The children of the elite and intellectuals are always the ones most likely to believe in marxism. That couldn't possibly because they have no actual work experience, and that they are totally isolated from the consequences of their mistakes.

No, there's no relationship.

Fuck 'em.

[mykebulvai]

"There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money so I can get the fuck away from people". If you can't beat em, join em.

[dthomas9444]

Besides, Mankiw's textbooks and his class—go ahead, look up the course evaluations as well as the textbook's reviews on Amazon—are completely unbiased. He grants exposure to each facet of economic understanding and leaves politics outside the classroom. Can the same be said for the rest of Harvard's genius professors? Hardly. How many walkouts have you heard of in Harvard's notoriously liberal sociology department?

[dthomas9444]

Not that I disagree with this bunch, but the only reason this is happening is because Mankiw advised Bush and Romney. Had he been one of Obama's pals, these people surely wouldn't be staging a "walk out".

[LogicalFlawDetector]

These faggots should be shot. 

[ScholarforTruth]

Privilege, sweet privilege. These fools will be digging in their heels at their six-figure jobs in no time. Let's call them the Harvard Hypocrites!

[zunguri]

Just give all of them a nice big FAIL.  They can learn about the difference between getting an education and political activism.

[MrBigEnchilada]

bunch of idiots, they should drop out if they know so much. Why did they sign up for that class then if they dont like the teacher? lol.