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>  The average citizen today believes that (mainstream) economics doesn't 
make  
> sense, and is irrelevant to societies problems.  
 
Maybe the average citizen somewhere, but certainly not the average American 
college student. Demand for courses in economics and business is way, way 
up in the US. Demand, however, for the more non-quantitative, descriptive 
and  opinion-based classes is way down. Maybe things will turnaround 
sometime in the future, but given the ever increasing proportion of foreign 
students in the US college system, I doubt the demand for quantitative and 
scientifically oriented classes will fall.  
 
Chas Anderson  
 
 
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