Nerd News: Undergrad Economics = the New Campus Hotness

Via blogging Hahvahd econ prof Greg Mankiw comes this link: undergraduate students are flocking to economics classes!

Here is a blurb:

At Ohio's Oberlin College, registration in undergrad economics classes is up 25 percent this year, and the chair of the department says he's never seen anything like it.

I guess it's an unintended consequence of the current GLOBALECONOMICAPOCALYPSEWE'REALLGOINGTODIEOMG. I guess it would take a crisis to make econ classes "sexy"!