Une soixantaine d'étudiants associés à Occupy Wall street ont quitté un cours d'économie pour protester contre l'approche biaisée du professeur, un ancien conseiller de George W. Bush. On s'en prend même à ce bon vieux Adam Smith...
"An Occupy Wall Street group at Harvard University staged a walk-out Wednesday afternoon of the introductory economics class of Greg Mankiw, a former Bush administration economic advisor now working with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Mankiw is the main professor in the Economics 10 class that has about 750 students. Jose DelReal, a reporter with The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, said about 60 students participated in the walk-out.
Mankiw told CNNMoney Wednesday morning that the class is relatively apolitical, and that guest lecturers have included Larry Summers, who was a top economic advisor for both Presidents Obama and Clinton.
"When I enter a classroom, I try to leave my politics at a door," Mankiw said. "The class is very conventional economics. Adam Smith is pretty non-controversial among economists. But it can seem pretty conservative the first time you hear it."
An open letter to Mankiw posted online by protest leaders explained that the walk-out was being done "to express our discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory economics course."
It objected to the attention given to the teachings of Adam Smith, the father of free market capitalism, at the expense of other economic theorists."
http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/02/news/economy/mankiw_harvard_ows/
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