What Would Buddha Do? Berkeley Econ Class Covers Supply, Demand and Enlightenment

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What Would Buddha Do? Berkeley Econ Class Covers Supply, Demand and Enlightenment

By Ben Christopher

Let the bull market for college-level economics continue. Despite its daunting math, its abstract models, and its 0-for-1 track record in predicting recent worldwide financial catastrophes, economics remains one of the top 10 college majors across the country, according to the Princeton Review. That trend certainly holds at UC Berkeley where, last fall, econ was the second only to electrical engineering and computer science as most popular major. As the fall semester approaches, expect hundreds more undergrads to flock eagerly to the “dismal science.”

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