What Does Economics Do To Politics?

Tags: Political Theory

12/19/2006 Mises Wire Mises.org

My school offers two main elective history courses for seniors: Government and Economics. Due to scheduling limitations, not many kids are able to take both. I’ve noticed something interesting as the year has progressed. The students who are taking the government course are increasingly endorsing leftist ideologies while the economics students are becoming increasingly right wing.

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