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Is Teaching a Good Idea?
When i first got to the uf c, i was struck by how mathematically demanding the requirements were in the economics major. So at a faculty meeting where we were going to vote on adding these extra mat classes, i asked why people thought this would be a good idea. And the answer i was given was, well, the economics major is too popular at the university of chicago and it's too much work for the department administrators. I reminded my colleagues that we were indeed the university ofChicagolandeconomics department, and we believed in markets. And so immediately after i made this impassioned speech, we had a faculty vote, and i was the only person in