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On the first day of class, we ask first year students: “What is the most pressing problem economists today should be addressing?”. In the resulting word cloud for 2020, inequality is still the top issue with COVID-19 an equally prevalent concern.
CORE is taking part in a study into a new approach to funding online content. We’re helping to study the potential of web monetization, an open and privacy-focused standard that lets users support content creators.
CORE author Georg von Graevenitz describes how scientists, preparedness and luck combined to simplify COVID-19 crisis management in Germany. But neglect of the exploitation of workers in the meat-processing industry has created unexpected external effects as new lockdowns are now being declared.
Highlights from our 2020 symposium at the Bank of England – what comes next?
Highlights from our 2020 symposium at the Bank of England – what we have achieved so far.
The 1.0 edition of CORE’s Doing Economics was released in January 2020 – find out what has been revised and expanded, as part of our continuing commitment to helping students develop the data-handling skills that will be important both to their job prospects and for society.
A team of talented students and project managers from Sciences Po, led by Yann Algan, working with the Académie de Versailles and a team of high school teachers adapted CORE’s resources to high school and developed radically new ways of teaching economics.
Why is addressing climate change so difficult? That’s the question we posed in the 2019 Schools Economics Challenge, in which we partnered with the Financial Times for Schools. Teams were challenged to create an accessible and entertaining short video, making use of The Economy…
“I told them it would be experimental,” says Carlos Cortinhas, who introduced the first beta units of Economy, Society and Public Policy (ESPP) to his students at the University of Exeter in 2018, “I explained to them that’s what economics is about. We try…
