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We asked Professor Simon DeDeo, who runs the Laboratory for Social Minds at Indiana University, to tell us more what we can learn from Richard Feynman (right), whose introductory physics course, first given between 1961 and 1963, tore up the old physics textbooks and…
CORE was developed to teach economics from a new perspective, so that students can better deal with the economic events of recent decades. A typical student studying CORE is young and studies undergraduate economics full-time. But what is our course like for students who don’t fit…
Open access is a principle of CORE: our ebook is free of charge to students. Unlike traditional introductory economics textbooks, some of which might cost close to $300, or even over $200 just to rent.
What do new economics undergraduates care about? Many of the same things as Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in Economics, it seems. Last week the ECON1001 freshers at UCL were asked “What is it that economists study, or should study?”. You can see their…
A British trader, Navinder Singh Sarao (right), faces extradition to the US to answer 22 criminal counts, including fraud and market manipulation. The US Department of Justice claims he significantly contributed to the “flash crash” that occurred on 6 May 2010, in which the Dow Jones…
Last month the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, launched the first CORE course to be taught in Africa. We asked Reza Daniels (RD), a senior lecturer in the School of Economics at UCT, about how his students (above) were reacting to the…
Project director Wendy Carlin was interviewed by the Analysis programme on Radio 4 this week to discuss a subject that would have been inconceivable 10 years ago: the legacy of macroeconomist Hyman Minsky, and why it matters. You can listen to it on the…
In a new post at Project Syndicate, Prof Paul Seabright (right) of the Toulouse School of Economics focuses on the central problem of teaching introductory microeconomics: how to reconcile elegance and clarity with reality. We should do more, he says, to show undergraduates that realistic…
Since the launch of the CORE curriculum project, the amount of interest in how economics is taught has surprised (in a good way) even our team. Some of the most authoritative names in academic economics have joined the debate. The argument made by three…
