《共产党宣言》是美国大学课程中最常使用的教材之一

　新浪美股讯 如果你怀疑美国校园已经被不信上帝的共产主义者占领，那么现在你又有了新的统计学证据支持。

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　　在柏林墙倒塌超过25年、苏联解体以及中国增长放缓后，《共产党宣言》仍然是美国大学里的三大最经常指定读物之一。与之相比，《圣经》根本排不上号。

　　这是“公开教学大纲”项目根据超过100万份教学大纲中的指定学生阅读书籍及其他作品得出的数据。

　　这个数据库是基于公开网络获得的数据、利用计算机算法得出的。据其网站介绍，目前数据库仍在建设当中。该网站称，数据库的分析对象，都是美国大学过去10年左右的公开教学大纲。

       该网站称，每个教材都算作一个计数，同时记录下它出现在教学大纲中的次数以及教学评价，及其在“特定教学课程出现频率的数值指标。”

　　有些书籍会出人意料的出现在其中。举例来说，搜索“经济学”，第一条显示的是保罗-克鲁格曼(Paul Krugman，2008年获诺贝尔经济学奖得主)的标志性著作《经济学》，计数为1081，得分89.4。但在同一搜索结果中，居然没有曼昆(Gregory Mankiw)的《宏观经济学》，虽然这本书的计数为989、得分为87.5。

　　卡尔马克思的经典著作计数为3189，得分为99.7。实际上，这本书也没有列入经济学教材当中，而是经常与卢梭的《社会契约论》、托马斯-霍布斯的《利维坦》以及穆勒的《论自由》一道出现在哲学类教材里。

　　比《共产党宣言》更经常成为指定读物的，就只有两本书：斯特伦克的《文体指南》（The Elements of Stytle）以及柏拉图的《理想国》(The Republic)。

　　在其他较为知名的指定读物中，还有阿道夫-希特勒的《我的奋斗》，计数为697，得分75.7，以及列宁的《怎么办》，计数为361，得分45.9。(张俊)

英文原文来源：

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/communist-manifesto-among-top-three-books-assigned-in-college-2016-01-27

More than 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the onset of market economy practices in China, “The Communist Manifesto” still ranks among the top three most frequently assigned texts at American universities.

That’s according to data from Open Syllabus Project, which tracks books and other works assigned to students in more than 1 million syllabi.

The database is assembled using computer algorithms that scrape the data from publicly available sites. It is still very much a work in progress, according to its web site and project leader Joe Karaganis. The syllabi analyzed are primarily from the U.S. and cover the past decade or so.

Each text is assigned a count, registering the number of times it appears in syllabi, and a teaching score, “a numerical indicator of the frequency with which a particular work is taught,” according to the site.

A number of notable works, including the Bible and the U.S. Constitution don’t appear in the data set. “The Bible’s one of a number of prominent texts we can’t say anything about,” said Karaganis, vice president of the American Assembly at Columbia University. That’s because the computer algorithms used to compile the data can’t handle single word titles by unspecified authors.

In addition, while the database has analyzed more than 1 million syllabi, the group estimates that there are more than 80 million that could be reviewed. The data include syllabi from all levels, ranging from community colleges to Ivy League schools, Karaganis said.

Some books show up where you might not expect them.

For instance, a search for “economics” shows Paul Krugman at the top of the list with his iconic “Economics,” which gets a count of 1,081 and score of 89.4. However, Gregory Mankiw’s “Macroeconomics,” doesn’t appear at all under the same search, even though it gets a count of 989 and a teaching score of 87.5.

Karl Marx’s classic receives a count of 3,189 and a score of 99.7. It doesn’t actually show up under economics texts either, as it is generally taught along with philosophy texts such as “The Social Contract,” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; “Leviathan,” by Thomas Hobbes; and “On Liberty,” by John Stuart Mill. “’The Communist Manifesto’” is widely taught as a work of social theory,” rather than as an economics text Karaganis said. He added that when Marx is taught in economics classes, professors generally assign “Capital,” which received a count of 1,447 and a score of 94.6.

The only books assigned more frequently than “The Communist Manifesto” were “The Elements of Style,” the writing guide by William Strunk which was popularized by E.B. White, and “The Republic,” by Plato.

Among other standouts, “Mein Kampf,” by Adolph Hitler, received a count of 697 and a score of 75.7. “What Is To Be Done,” by Vladimir Lenin received a count of 361 and a teaching score of 45.9.

Here’s a look at the most frequently taught works by notable economists (and others) relating to economics and money: