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Socialist bias in VCE Economics
brendan:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/economic-rumblings-to-be-felt-in-classrooms-20081003-4tkm.html
And not a single academic economist on the Study Design Review Panel: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/economics/membership.html
humph:
? It didn't come across as that socialist, just merely suggesting a swing back towards the centre (i.e. slightly less free market, but free enough nevertheless).
And to be honest a slightly socialist high school economics curriculum doesn't really concern me, considering how conservative most economics departments at Australian universities are (with good reason).
AppleXY:
It's VCE so they have to keep it as basic as they can. The VCE Economics Study design always had govt intervention/redistribution of income and it made sense to keep it as it creates some substance for the subject. Although it does contain many socialist material.
Collin Li:
--- Quote from: AppleXY on October 06, 2008, 03:54:55 pm ---It's VCE so they have to keep it as basic as they can. The VCE Economics Study design always had govt intervention/redistribution of income and it made sense to keep it as it creates some substance for the subject. Although it does contain many socialist material.
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The University of Melbourne offers a far more simple and politically neutral course on economics in first year, than VCE.
Collin Li:
--- Quote from: Brendan on October 06, 2008, 12:13:07 pm ---http://www.theage.com.au/national/economic-rumblings-to-be-felt-in-classrooms-20081003-4tkm.html
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What a shallow view of the credit crisis:
"The United States is traditionally known as a capitalist nation, and look: A failure in the financial markets! This must be the fault of capitalism!"
But they're wrong. You wouldn't find a free market capitalism in the United States in that many industries without looking before the 20th century. Socialists are begging to see what capitalists saw happen to communism in 1990, but what they're really watching is the downfall of a "market" filled with entangling laws and overbearing regulations.
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