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
The development of CORE Econ ebooks, resources, and all other content is overseen by the CORE Econ Editorial Board comprised of:
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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Education institutions across the world are adopting CORE Econ to improve their teaching of economics.
Find out moreWe 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).
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.
A grant from the Partners for a New Economy will enable CORE Econ to revise its highly successful ebook The Economy to make climate change one of its two centrepieces, together with inequality. CORE Econ will use the climate crisis to introduce beginning students of economics to the importance of instability as well as stability in economic systems. They will learn about tipping points, disequilibrium processes and other aspects of dynamic analysis that can be applied not only to climate but also to financial instability and poverty traps. This is a primary objective of The Economy 2.0 project and a novel challenge for the economics profession at the introductory level. Support from the grant is also provided for teacher and student user reviews and expert reviews of The Economy 2.0, as well as bringing the course to the attention of teachers and university decision-makers through workshops and conferences and media exposure.
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.
‘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).
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.
A grant from the Partners for a New Economy will enable CORE Econ to revise its highly successful ebook The Economy to make climate change one of its two centrepieces, together with inequality. CORE Econ will use the climate crisis to introduce beginning students of economics to the importance of instability as well as stability in economic systems. They will learn about tipping points, disequilibrium processes and other aspects of dynamic analysis that can be applied not only to climate but also to financial instability and poverty traps. This is a primary objective of The Economy 2.0 project and a novel challenge for the economics profession at the introductory level. Support from the grant is also provided for teacher and student user reviews and expert reviews of The Economy 2.0, as well as bringing the course to the attention of teachers and university decision-makers through workshops and conferences and media exposure.
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.
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.
