Martin S. Feldstein '61, Baker professor of economics, has a monopoly on the teaching of economics at Harvard.
Or at least Sonia Kastner '03, vice president of the College Democrats, thinks so.
Kastner organized "Ec 10 ½," a forum held last night intended to broaden students' perspectives on the subject of economics.
Kennedy School Lecturer Richard J. Parker and Divinity School Fellow Julie Nelson discussed the more liberal
aspect of economics at the forum--something Parker said is largely ignored in Feldstein's popular lecture course, "Ec 10."
Contrary to popular belief, Parker said, economics has a closer resemblance to religion than it has to physics.
He called economics a faith-based system--and not an exact science.
He said economics has traditionally not been a field in which everyone agrees, and said there needs to be a fundamental reform of the curriculum of Ec 10 to reflect divergent opinions.
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