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We’ve been delighted by the attention given to our Doing Economics practical projects for students, which we developed at the same time as Economy, Society and Public Policy, our text for non-specialists. You can use these projects alongside any of our material, but they are…
On 4 June Gonzalo Paz Pardo, one of our Postgraduate Teaching Assistants, was one of only 12 people (and the only teaching assistant) to win a Provost’s Education Award for his work at UCL. The UCL Education Awards “recognise the work … that has enabled…
Read what students at the Universidad de los Andes had to say when asked: “What is the question you would like answered when you graduate as an economist?” and what this means for undergraduate economics education in Latin America.
If you attend our CORE teaching workshop on 8 May, you’ll be sitting next to a team from The University of Warwick (one of its more striking buildings, above), ranked in the world’s top 30 in the QS world university rankings. It is planning…
As well as helping us to create ESPP (you can hear him in our podcast), Michael Muthukrishna (left) is an assistant professor of economic psychology at the London School of Economics, a research associate in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and technical…
We created Doing Economics because all CORE’s projects are motivated by the thrill of discovering more about the world around us, and so teaching hands-on quantitative techniques is the logical next step.
We asked the people who teach non-economics majors in a variety of institutions how Economy, Society, and Public Policy (ESPP) could fit into their syllabus and identified several areas in which ESPP can be used, either in whole or in part.
If you would like to know more about why The CORE Team created ESPP and Doing Economics, and how we think it might be used, listen to this podcast (9 mins) featuring Wendy Carlin of CORE and UCL, Michael Muthukrishna of the London School of…
In early 2017, after one of his Introduction to Economics lectures at the University of Manchester, Mihai Codreanu overheard one of his fellow students asking about comparative advantage. Afterwards, he sat down with his colleague to work through the examples in The Economy in…
