I majored in Econ at West Point and my professors made fun of them for this reason.

Nov 26, 2021
8:26:33pm

WP17 King of the Kenai

They’re like a meme in the Econ academic world. Them and UMASS Amherst. They focus on a lot of weird theory and don’t do any quant. It’s basically poly sci.

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At Thanksgiving dinner, my lil bro brought up this fun fact about U of U.

Mostlyaccurate

11/26/21 7:24pm

Completely unsurprising. Same reason there are more tattoos per capita in Utah

Iman23

11/26/21 7:26pm

What do tattoos have to do with Marxism?

ColonelMustard

11/26/21 9:26pm

The need to differentiate oneself.

shamc

11/26/21 9:46pm

I hadn't considered that before. If you want to be an econ major, do you need

Mister P

11/26/21 7:28pm

Idk, I guess you just choose a school you align with or if you don't care then

Mostlyaccurate

11/26/21 7:33pm

If you do Econ in Utah, BYU is the best option. Then I’d say USU.

TerpCoug

11/26/21 7:35pm

USU ranks higher.

Oatmeal

11/26/21 8:28pm

Lol, USU isn’t 3rd in anything. That site is wack

WP17

11/26/21 8:35pm

Business Econ isn’t Econ. And for undergrad, BYU has en elite program.

TerpCoug

11/26/21 9:18pm

NYU grad after BYU Econ here

NYC and Japan

11/26/21 9:41pm

Ok let me be more precise: business Econ and Econ may not focus on the same

TerpCoug

11/26/21 10:00pm

I am confused what this has to do with anything

WP17

11/27/21 9:19am

Just agreeing with the comment in the body of the text that BYU Econ is good for

NYC and Japan

11/27/21 1:01pm

Okay, that makes sense. Then the response to you just doesn’t make sense

WP17

11/27/21 1:09pm

I credit Marxist teachings in HS and college to my appreciation of capitalism

jrifkin48

11/26/21 7:52pm

You can tell from the course desc whether you're getting quant or philosophy

BYU'01

11/26/21 9:09pm

I have coworkers who studied at Utah in Econ. I always call them Comrade.

TerpCoug

11/26/21 7:34pm

Isn't a lot of Marxists economic view demonstrabley false? I mean are they still

shamc

11/26/21 7:38pm

It just hasn’t been implemented correctly…or something.

Jstak17

11/26/21 7:40pm

Communism

D.T. Survivor

11/27/21 6:52pm

This is true

DazeofBlue

11/26/21 7:36pm

Wish we never donated that school to them

Dr MoBYU

11/26/21 7:41pm

Figures

Lifi

11/26/21 7:41pm

They have a Cry Closet, drop trou in their own concourse, and think Majerus was

Abe Froman

11/26/21 8:03pm

I majored in Econ at West Point and my professors made fun of them for this reason.

WP17

11/26/21 8:26pm

Can confirm

dixieutahbyuzag

11/26/21 8:27pm

Sounds about right. No one who knows Econ does a masters before PhD.

WP17

11/26/21 8:30pm

I can confirm this. My buddy got his econ Masters from the U and bought in

Big McLargeHuge

11/26/21 8:35pm

So they teach a system of Econ that has proven ineffective time and time again?

D.T. Survivor

11/26/21 8:46pm

Also, the U’s Econ program skips the calculus part of Econ. Anyone who has an

tyrwhite

11/26/21 8:59pm

Econ is more Linear Algebra (the Matrix/ matrices) than calculus.

NYC and Japan

11/26/21 9:47pm

Why would they need to train economists if they're just going to turn it over to

BYUBandfan

11/26/21 9:48pm

I'm a product of the U's Econ Dept, 2005 to 2007.

Cachanilla83

11/26/21 9:48pm

Today, leftist is Marxist, no?

CougsWin16

11/26/21 9:58pm

With Bernie’s popularity, it seems to be heading that way.

Breaded Hamster

11/26/21 10:04pm

I am a liberal - and far from Marxist - so absolutely NO.

Cswilliam01

11/27/21 6:44am

No. 'Marxist' doesn't actually mean anything. It's a term for leftist boogeymen

Hotlanta

11/27/21 6:57am

Bernie has said many times that he is a socialist

D.T. Survivor

11/27/21 8:47am

RE: Bernie has said many times that he is a socialist

Hotlanta

11/27/21 9:07am

RE: Bernie has said many times that he is a socialist

D.T. Survivor

11/27/21 9:16am

You must be really young to have such conviction that you know so much, in particular what everyone should think and

No touching

11/27/21 9:33am

People shouldn't be racist. What, do you want me to be sorry about that?

Hotlanta

11/27/21 1:12pm

Anyone who is ok with Racism Is not right in the head… but what the media and

Pretorian

11/27/21 5:43pm

Hotlanta - check your capitalization

NYC and Japan

11/27/21 1:11pm

Cough cough, virtuesignaling.

shamc

11/27/21 1:32pm

Probably worded that poorly

NYC and Japan

11/27/21 2:15pm

You’d think a leftist would know how to use pronouns properly 🙂

D.T. Survivor

11/27/21 6:54pm

Honest question…

Pretorian

11/26/21 10:20pm

Marxist. Leftists. Potato. Potatoe.

UNLVcougar

11/26/21 11:58pm

Chihuaha. Orca. Both mammals.

vagabonder

11/27/21 7:47am

Utah has a mostly deserved reputation for being amongst the most marxist dept.

YSMACK

11/27/21 12:01am

Cheap shot - many liberal theories are far from Marxism.

Cswilliam01

11/26/21 10:47pm

The post was about how other Econ Dept’s view the school

BYU '80

11/26/21 10:51pm

The post was anecdotal - the well poisoning politics that does not infect

Cswilliam01

11/27/21 6:36am

To be fair, your post was less than anecdotal.

DirtyWater

11/27/21 6:53am

Yeah. My profs at West Point knew about the U’s “heterodox” Econ dept so it’s not some random anecdote.

WP17

11/27/21 6:46am

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cvd6262

11/27/21 8:57am

understood, and yes- the phrasing I use here is referring specifically to heterodox economic teaching

WP17

11/27/21 9:00am

^^^graduated from Utahs Econ program and couldn’t get accepted anywhere for a

UNLVcougar

11/26/21 11:59pm

You criticized using labels by using more labels

BYU'01

11/27/21 8:50am

Lack of transparency is the higgestnn by problem woth healthcare. Thankfully

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