About CORE Econ

Accessible, relevant, real-world economics teaching, available and free to everyone.

Our Mission

CORE (Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics) Econ
CORE Econ’s vision is that a radically transformed economics education can contribute to a more just, sustainable, and democratic world in which future citizens are empowered by a new economics to understand and debate how best to address pressing societal problems. Our mission, to achieve this vision, is to

  • change economics education globally to a focus on the most important problems faced by our societies including climate change, injustice, innovation and the future of work,
  • put the student at the centre of pedagogy using learning materials and experiences attuned both to the societal problems that students care about and to how students acquire facility and confidence in using and communicating economics,
  • make knowledge freely available on a global scale by providing high-quality open access educational resources,
  • help change who studies economics to include more women and other underrepresented groups by changing content, pedagogy and access to knowledge.

CORE Econ Editorial Board

The development of CORE Econ ebooks, resources, and all other content is overseen by the CORE Econ Editorial Board comprised of:

Wendy Carlin

Sam Bowles

Humberto Llavador

Margaret Stevens

Eileen Tipoe

Simon Halliday

CORE Econ is a global community of learners, instructors and researchers with a mission to reform the teaching of economics. Our content is developed by a team of volunteers that includes 30+ primary authors. They are experts in micro- and macroeconomics, game theory, economic history, political economy, behavioural, labour, industrial, development and environmental economics. Joining them are hundreds of contributors who believe in our mission to transform how economics is taught.

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Who is teaching CORE Econ?

Education institutions across the world are adopting CORE Econ to improve their teaching of economics.

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Our funders

We are grateful for the support of the following organizations:

‘CORE: The Economy After Covid’ (CORE-TEACh) project. The project will produce a 6-unit ebook that will illuminate critical issues in the reconstruction of the global economy post-Covid and contribute to the debates around it and will be focused on a specific set of policy concerns that came to the fore in the pandemic. Whilst some of the policy issues will relate directly to the structural changes or lessons generated by the pandemic itself (e.g. labour markets and universal income schemes), others will relate to global crises that have matured in these same years (e.g., global warming, energy security).

James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation donated US$7 million to establish the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy at UCL. The gift will support CORE (Curriculum Open-Access Resources in Economics) Econ as well as research at the UCL Department of Economics. The mission of the Centre is to advance research and teaching to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences. The Centre makes education and research equal partners in the venture – it will provide a global hub for research and learning that will make wealth concentration and its impacts on innovation and sustainability central to an economics education.

Finistere Charitable Foundation

The Finistere Charitable Foundation supports the development and dissemination of new knowledge in the life and social sciences. CORE Econ is transforming both the content of the economics curriculum and how that curriculum is taught at the undergraduate level. The Foundation has made an initial unrestricted grant to CORE Econ in furtherance of these purposes.

Fulcrum Global Foundation

The Fulcrum Global Foundation has made an unrestricted donation to CORE Econ which will be used to fund and support CORE for the period of two years in its mission to change economics education globally to a focus on the most important problems faced by our societies and make knowledge freely available on a global scale by providing high-quality open access educational resources.

‘CORE: The Economy After Covid’ (CORE-TEACh) project. The project will produce a 6-unit ebook that will illuminate critical issues in the reconstruction of the global economy post-Covid and contribute to the debates around it and will be focused on a specific set of policy concerns that came to the fore in the pandemic. Whilst some of the policy issues will relate directly to the structural changes or lessons generated by the pandemic itself (e.g. labour markets and universal income schemes), others will relate to global crises that have matured in these same years (e.g., global warming, energy security).

James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation donated US$7 million to establish the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy at UCL. The gift will support CORE (Curriculum Open-Access Resources in Economics) Econ as well as research at the UCL Department of Economics. The mission of the Centre is to advance research and teaching to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences. The Centre makes education and research equal partners in the venture – it will provide a global hub for research and learning that will make wealth concentration and its impacts on innovation and sustainability central to an economics education.

Finistere Charitable Foundation

The Finistere Charitable Foundation supports the development and dissemination of new knowledge in the life and social sciences. CORE Econ is transforming both the content of the economics curriculum and how that curriculum is taught at the undergraduate level. The Foundation has made an initial unrestricted grant to CORE Econ in furtherance of these purposes.

Fulcrum Global Foundation

The Fulcrum Global Foundation has made an unrestricted donation to CORE Econ which will be used to fund and support CORE for the period of two years in its mission to change economics education globally to a focus on the most important problems faced by our societies and make knowledge freely available on a global scale by providing high-quality open access educational resources.

Our past funders

Governance

CORE Economics Education is a charity registered in England and Wales (number 1175143). The charity is overseen by Trustees, the day-to-day running is delegated to the Charity Secretary, Professor Wendy Carlin, while operations are undertaken by the CORE Econ Management and Research team.