Harvard Students stage walk-out on Greg Mankiw

[muon2]

Introductory courses for most sciences are based on unrealistic assumptions, and for such courses in economics to do this must mean economics has become a science.

On a serious note, it doesn't seem as if some students have much choice:

Your follow up phrase makes me think the opening sentence is tongue-in-cheek. Even so, I'm confused by the highlighted clause.

[muon2]

Your follow up phrase makes me think the opening sentence is tongue-in-cheek. Even so, I'm confused by the highlighted clause.

A reference to freshman physics abstracting air friction and the like. Also references an argument I heard that introductory economics must sacrifice realism to develop the method of reasoning, just as introductory physics does.

"Science" was not the best word choice, but take it as you will.

Now I'm fascinated. Abstracting air friction is not something I'd expect in freshman physics beyond the concept of a terminal velocity. That doesn't strike me as an unrealistic assumption, so I presume there's something more to the story.