Most fiscally conservative colleges?

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<p>Colleges that teach a laizes faire economics and whos students are not altruistic.</p>

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<p>University of Chicago</p>

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<p>Wharton?</p>

<p>(ten)</p>

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<p>Dr. Klein is a liberal figure. He might have no influence there, though.
If you mean Neo-liberalism by Laissez Faire, you should not study Economics. It’s Science not an ideology crap.</p>

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<p>The OP seems to be asking 2 questions (or maybe 3), which will not necessarily have the same answers.</p>

<p>The title seems to raise a question about how colleges manage their endowment funds and operating budgets. To answer that, you’d have to do some careful research into schools’ investment positions, expenses, debt levels, etc. I suspect this is not what the OP is really interested in, though.</p>

<p>Does the OP want to know what college economics departments tend to emphasize laissez-faire approaches in the study of economic theory? Yes, the University of Chicago has been famous for that. But most good economics departments will teach a variety of theoretical approaches in their undergraduate classes, possibly including whatever FiddlinEcon is calling “ideology crap”. </p>

<p>As for which colleges have the least altruistic students, how would we define or measure that? Maybe you’d want to look at something like the percentage of schools’ graduates who go into the Peace Corps. By that measure, the University of Chicago would be a bad choice, because graduates of that school have one of the highest per capita rates of PC volunteers.</p>

<p>adil91 might be interested in the Forbes survey of “Top Colleges for Getting Rich”, or the payscale.com college salary reports:
[Top</a> Colleges For Getting Rich - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/30/college-salary-graduates-lead-cz_kb_0730topcolleges.html]Top”>Top Colleges For Getting Rich)
[Best</a> Colleges, Best College Majors, Best College Degrees](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/]Best”>2023 College Rankings by Salary Potential | Payscale)
Many schools in these lists do have a lot of very liberal students, and tend to send many graduates into programs such as the Peace Corps or Teach for America.</p>

<p>He could check out so-called “Christian” colleges, where the students and the curriculum would be more conservative (assuming Quaker or Catholic don’t count as “Christian”.) But there, too, you are likely to find a certain service orientation that might be described as “altruistic.”</p>

<p>So on balance your best bet might be to choose a strong undergraduate business program at a school such as Northwestern or UPenn (Wharton), then seek out like-minded students if that’s who you want to befriend. Those 2 schools are extremely selective, though.</p>

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<p>I apologize for my post #4. I sometimes make immediate reactions like that.
adil91, I believe it too early for you to decide to take what kind of theoretical position in economics. It will not be too late after you explore many versions. I agree that U Chicago is a good place to study Economics although not all faculties are “conservatives”.</p>

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<p>UChicago’s econ program was built by such laissez faire mavens that challenged the work of such men like Keynes, but it is strange to think that some schools econ programs teach one econ philosophy over another, you’ll find many viewpoints at every school from a variety of profs</p>

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<p>Friedman was the least laissez-faire economist of the 20th Century. He was the brain behind “disaster capitalism” - massive outside governmental interference in the political, military, and economic affairs of other nations - at huge cost, it should be added - in order to “redesign” entire economic systems, both internally and externally. And the results have been catastrophic almost everywhere they have been tried.</p>

<p>Good book on the subject - <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247977267&sr=8-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247977267&sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>remember NOT to confuse a college’s research department with its undergrad education…</p>

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<p>^^ That’s the irony of trying to impose “freedom” from without.</p>

<p>Seems to me, much the same thing happened in the early days of the Iraq war (decades after MF’s efforts with Chile). Young Republican operatives went in thinking they could set up a laboratory for instituting policies like the flat tax. Did not speak the local language, did not understand the culture, did not succeed.</p>

<p>Don’t wanna get this too far off track though.</p>

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<p>Getting back to the OP, the idea that altruism is inversely correlated with laissez faire thinking is just plain wrong. If anything it’s the statists who show less altruism because they are generous with your money via taxation, but very cheap about giving away their own money.</p>

<p>There are studies which show this.</p>