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By Andrew Sykes Five years ago, when the Royal Economic Society investigated how economics teaching could be improved, one skill set was universally in demand. When Paul Anand and Jonathan Leape surveyed 500 members of the British Government Economic Service, Diane Coyle wrote in the…

Wendy Carlin on BloombergTV: “Leading the way” in economic education reform.

In February we wrote about our grant from the Nuffield Foundation (http://www.core-econ.org/nuffield-foundation-funds-core/). The goal is to create a course called Economics as a Quantitative Social Science (EQuSS) for students who are not intending to specialise in economics, and develop a new text called Economy,…

“CORE is capable of introducing students to economics in a new and innovative way,” such as with the paper airplane production game illustrating how diminishing returns on production arise. Original article, and our translation into English.

CORE has partnered with Oxford University Press to publish a print version of The Economy, available from July 2017. The entire interactive ebook will be available for free online, but for those who want a hard copy – pre-order it from OUP here. You…

“We have a problem in France that the public does not perceive economics as a science, but as an ideology.” Christian Gollier, Founder and former Director of the Toulouse School of Economics, talks about TSE’s first year of teaching CORE to its undergraduates.

Georg von Graevenitz, Senior Lecturer at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, writes about the First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Empirical Methods in Innovation, IP and Competition in a blog post titled ‘The Economic Effects of Copyright – Using CREATe & CORE Resources to…

We have had many enquiries from teachers in the US, but until now we have had limited resources to be able to help American institutions that want to adopt CORE. That is set to change, because The Teagle Foundation has awarded Rajiv Sethi and…