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British Students Insist on Being Taught Junk Economics

Students at some universities in Britain recently staged a protest to insist that their economics professors stop teaching free-market theories, and a professor backed them with calls to just teach about Marx and Keynes — stuff that’s about “the real world.”

In this Freeman article last week, SUNY professor Sandy Ikeda gives that idea a sound thrashing.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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