Zachary Smith Topic Of The Week - Economic News

My topic of the week is from the webpage http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/business/know-what-youre-protesting-economic-view.html?ref=economics. The title of the article I read is: "Know What Your Protesting". The article is written by Gregory Mankiw. This article is about an Economics college teacher at the school Harvard. Since there have been many movements with "occupy" such as occupy Wallstreet and other places as protestors have been protesting things in our economy. This teacher had students protest and walk out of his economics class. The students felt this class was bias and symbolized increased econimic inequality in our country. The teacher was more upset that his students were very poorly informed rather than be upset that they walked out of his class. Sometimes people just jump on the bandwagon because they feel that it's what everyone is doing. That isn't right. The article was very good and informative.