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The Economy

Free, open access text for introductory undergraduate courses

The Economy 2.0

The rewrite of The Economy, available from April 2023 (Volume I) and December 2023 (Volume II)

The Economy: A South Asian Perspective

Adaptation of The Economy with topics and features specific to South Asian and developing economies

Economy, Society, and Public Policy

Using policy problems to motivate learning the concepts and methods of economics

Doing Economics

Work through policy problems using real data

CORE Insights

Free, self-contained educational resource to supplement CORE Econ’s ebooks

Experiencing Economics

Classroom experiments and games to learn economics

L’Économie

En accès libre et destiné aux étudiants d'un cours d'introduction à l'économie

L’Économie pour le Lycée

Three interactive, open access texts to introduce French high school students to economics.

L’economia

Un libro gratuito, ad accesso aperto, per corsi introduttivi di lauree triennali

La Economía

Libro de texto gratuito y de libre acceso para cursos introductorios en pregrado

Talous

Maksuton, kaikille avoin teos taloustieteen kandidaattitason johdantokursseille

A Economia

Texto gratuito e de livre acesso para cursos introdutórios de graduação

Die Wirtschaft

Frei zugängliche Lehrbuch für Grundlagenveranstaltungen.

Ekonomika, spoločnosť a verejná politika

Využitie problémov politík na motiváciu výučby konceptov a metód ekonómie

Introduction to CORE Econ

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CORE Insights

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Public debt: threat or opportunity?

Public debt: threat or opportunity?

An introduction to the analysis and management of public debt.

A world of differences: an introduction to inequality

A world of differences: an introduction to inequality

Read this Insight to learn about the meaning, measurement, and implications of economic inequality.

Too big to fail: lessons from a decade of financial sector reforms

Too big to fail: lessons from a decade of financial sector reforms

This Insight explores the reforms implemented after the global financial crisis to regulate too-big-to-fail banks.

Financing American government

Financing American government

This Insight explores US federal spending and the conduct of monetary policy.

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