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We have received some questions about how the ‘bargaining gap’ model of inflation that we use in The Economy works. For example, Nick Rowe, a Professor of Economics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, has asked why inflation would be lower in our model…

This tweet caught our eye last week, posted by John Schmitt, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and until recently research director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth: “Good god. Econ text book $348 new. $262 used. And even *renting* a…

In a recent Conversation piece, Wendy Carlin, Samuel Bowles and I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation to estimate that there are as many as 300,000 women missing from undergraduate economics study in the US. In a previous blog post, I outlined some of the explanations for…

Recently many people have supplied opinions about the problem of “missing women” in economics – including Wendy Carlin, Sam Bowles from CORE’s steering group and myself. We recently published an article at The Conversation in which we calculate that the gender imbalance in economics…

The Reserve Bank of Australia has a problem with economists: it can’t get enough of them. In Australia, there is a declining number of students studying the subject, and so the bank has difficulty recruiting graduates. The Reserve Bank is not alone. The problem…

Georg von Graevenitz, Senior Lecturer at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, writes about the First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Empirical Methods in Innovation, IP and Competition in a blog post titled ‘The Economic Effects of Copyright – Using CREATe & CORE Resources to…

We know from our email inbox that a small but active group of CORE’s teachers are using it in schools, so we asked some of them how it fits alongside the school curriculum, how useful it has been – and the challenges they overcame….

The CORE Project, the open-access economics curriculum reform initiative based at University College London, has been granted £340,000 by the Nuffield Foundation to develop a new course in which social science students will learn economic methods by grappling with policy issues concerning inequality, climate…

“We see from our teaching workshops that the various departments that use CORE are being very creative with the resources,” says Alvin Birdi of the teaching and learning committee. “We see different lengths and types of course, we see them using the resources selectively…