In the March 2024 issue of IMF’s F&D, Director Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems. The post Transforming economics teaching appeared first on CORE ..read more

Director Wendy Carlin delivered the Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture 2023 The University of Reading, 21st June 2023 Greed. Power. Corruption. Wendy Carlin – Director of CORE Econ – inspects the words on the vast screen before her. Inequality. Exploitation. She has asked her audience what comes to mind when they hear the word ‘capitalism’, and they watch with fascination as their answers fill the display. Evil. Entrepreneurship. So begins the Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture 2023. Sixth-form students have gathered to hear Carlin on capitalism, and their disenchantment wi ..read more

Wendy Carlin, Director of CORE Econ and Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL), has been elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. The Academy of Social Sciences is the national academy of academics, practitioners and learned societies in the social sciences. The sector’s leading independent voice in the UK, we champion the vital role social sciences play in education, governments and business. The social sciences include: anthropology; business, finance & management; development studies; economics; economic & social history; education; human geography; law ..read more

Cambridge University now presents an award-winning Masters in Finance course inspired by the principles of CORE Econ. The central discipline of finance is microeconomics. And as CORE Econ notes, traditionally its study begins with learning techniques. The Purpose of Finance course, which is part of the Masters in Finance offered at Cambridge University, takes a different approach. It begins by asking what the purpose of this industry is, how well the industry fulfils that purpose, and how helpful traditional techniques can be in doing so. This novel approach closely reflects CORE’s pedagogy, w ..read more

Co-author Eric Bottorff explains how you can include this CORE Insight in your course When my co-authors, Trevon Logan and Suresh Naidu, and I were writing our Insight on racial inequality in the United States, we strove to create a resource which would work well if taught as a whole, but which also was sufficiently modular for parts to be easily incorporated into a standard introductory or principles course. Beyond the pragmatic advantages of such an approach, this reflected our shared conviction that racism and racial inequality should no longer be treated as a mere afterthought, at best, in ..read more

Wendy Carlin joined Vox’s Noel King on the first episode of the ‘Blame Capitalism’ series. She offers one way in which we can understand capitalism. The post Wendy Carlin on ‘Blame Capitalism: Souring on the system’ appeared first on CORE ..read more

The UCL Policy Lab singles out CORE Econ for its continual effort to make economics more relatable to people’s everyday lives and give students the tools and skills they need to understand the world around them. The post Making economics less abstract appeared first on CORE ..read more

It doesn’t matter what background you have; as an economics instructor, you can teach about the economics of race and ethnicity. Here’s how. There is a way you can teach the economics of race and ethnicity, even if that’s not your academic background, says Martha Omolo, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Exeter Business School. We spoke with her to learn more about her teaching experience. “I teach economics to first-year undergraduate students. I use The Economy 1.0 because I’m interested in CORE Econ’s pedagogy. I also follow Valerie Wilson’s work. She is director of the Economic Pol ..read more

Wendy Carlin, Director of CORE Econ and Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL), has been elected Fellow of the British Academy. The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. On her election, Wendy joins a community of over 1,600 distinguished intellectuals, becoming part of the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Wendy said: I’m thrilled to be elected as an FBA – I see this as recognition of the synergy between my research on the economics of institutions and how it can be applied to develop new ways of te ..read more

CORE Econ (Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics) and Honor Education, two organizations dedicated to fostering equitable and active learning, are thrilled to announce their partnership to deliver the CORE Econ curriculum via the Honor Education platform. This collaboration aims to provide students with a more engaging and relevant educational experience while advancing the mission of both organizations. CORE Econ is a global community of learners, instructors and researchers with a mission to reform the teaching of economics by focusing on the most important problems faced by societie ..read more