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Peter Nunez has just finished his undergraduate degree in economics at UCL and is spending the summer building an AI tutor for students of CORE’s The Economy 2.0. We caught up with Peter to find out more about the project, and how the tutor differs from standard LLMs….
Chapters one to four of Understanding Our Economy, CORE’s latest textbook, are now available online. CORE’s new textbook has been written to address the needs of CORE’s growing audience in American institutions. In this overview, we’ll touch on who the textbook is for, how it differs from The Economy 2.0, and what you’ll find in…
Jovera Shakeel has recently joined the CORE team as an intern. Before joining us, she studied economics and mathematics at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and set up an e-commerce platform helping marginalised artisans reach a wider market. We caught up with her to hear about…
Earlier this year, we spoke with Anna Poerbonegoro, a lecturer at Parahyangan Catholic University in Indonesia, about her department’s transition to CORE and her parallel project to translate The Economy 2.0 into Bahasa Indonesia. Several months after our first conversation, we caught up with Anna to see how things were…
Jorge Kawas is the Academic Head of Finance and Business at Unitec, the largest private university in Honduras. After running a small classroom pilot of CORE’s The Economy alongside the traditional textbook at Unitec, Jorge travelled to the UK to attend our 2026 CORE workshop at Loughborough University. We caught up…
With the Spanish translation of both volumes of The Economy 2.0 now complete, Antonio Cabrales and Humberto Llavador, two of the economists who guided the project, joined us to reflect on the process. Both contributed to the translation as part of CORE’s community of academics, working alongside…
We’re pleased to announce a new Doing Economics project “The politics of carbon taxation”, authored by David Hope (Senior Lecturer, Political Economy, King’s College London), Julian Limberg (Senior Lecturer, Public Policy, King’s College London), and CORE editorial board member Eileen Tipoe (Reader in Economics, Queen Mary University of London). This project examines the political economy of carbon taxation, a policy instrument widely regarded by…
We are delighted to announce the release of chapters 1-4 of CORE’s latest textbook Understanding our Economy, for beginner and first-year economics students, students at two-year and four-year colleges and universities in North America, and high school students with an interest in economics. Understanding…
Paula Albuquerque and Ana Lúcia Luís both teach economics at ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa. In the 2024–2025 academic year, ISEG’s economics department switched microeconomics teaching from the Krugman and Wells textbook to CORE’s The Economy 2.0. Paula and Ana attended our 2026 CORE Workshop at Loughborough University earlier this year, and we…
