@merc81 An interesting idea for a metric. But all not all economists are “bad”. There are about 80 sub-fields within Economics.
Checking the Ideas database for research in “Environmental Economics” (i.e. the “good” ones) yields some interesting results. The following schools ( most of which do not have Economics Phd programs) are among the top 10% of institutions (which includes banks, government entities and think tanks as well as colleges and research universities) world wide.
Rank…School
3…Harvard (large Phd program- unfortunately this is neutralized by a #4 rank in “Financial Markets” Economics)
58…Tufts
126…Clark (very small Phd program)
170…Hamilton
211…Vassar
221…Wesleyan
Unfortunately Brown (which has an Economics Phd program) is unranked for Environmental Economics and ranked #106 for “Financial Markets”.
Among other NESCAC/Ivies:
Dartmouth is unranked for for Environmental Economics and ranked #5 for Financial Markets and Williams is unranked for Environmental Economics and ranked #109 for Financial Markets.
In terms of the 10% metric, I would suggest expanding your concept to the ratio of Econ graduates to Arts graduates and qualitatively factoring in the ratio of “good” economics majors to “bad” economics majors (of course the notion of “good” and “bad” may reverse depending on your ideology).
What you are left with is a spectrum of choices where people can choose their particular comfort zone.
The economists are heavily outnumbered at Hampshire and Marlboro and the artists are heavily outnumbered at Brown, Dartmouth and Harvard. Closer to the middle of the range it looks like it would be a more even match.
School…Econ…Arts
Hampshire…4…100
Marlboro…2…14
Clark…21…40
Vassar…56…73
Wesleyan…60…95
Tufts …141…111
Brandeis…87…56
Williams…70…42
Hamilton…50…28
Bates…53…28
Brown…148…73
Dartmouth 145…49
Harvard…190…50
If you want to look at other schools, here are the sources:
For research rankings:
https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.env.html#authors
https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.fmk.html#authors
For number of graduates per major:
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=brown+university&s=all&id=217156#programs