Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) singled out CORE as the bright spot in the international response of the economics profession to how to teach economics after the crisis. The article, titled “We haven’t learned anything from the financial crisis” quotes many other authors on the failure of universities to adapt their courses to respond to this challenge from the real world.
Wendy Carlin took part in BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking debate on “Britain’s Economy”, chaired by Anne McElvoy. Alongside her: Will Hutton, political economist and author; Luke Johnson, an entrepreneur; and Richard Davies, The Economist‘s economics editor. If you can use the BBC iPlayer, you can listen to the 45-minute conversation here. If you prefer, you can download the podcast.
Discussion of how far curriculum reform should go: whether traditional textbooks overemphasise theory: “By contrast, the new material challenges students to consider real-world topics from the outset.”
In an article (“Universities to revamp economics courses”) describing our ebook, the Financial Times reported that “Universities across four continents are rolling out a revamped economics curriculum”. Among other subjects, the article covered the potential impact of our material on teaching methods.
Wendy Carlin, our project director, visited the BBC for two interviews in response to the Post-Crash Economics Society at the University of Manchester, whose interesting blog sets out their arguments against the current syllabus, and explains the changes they would like to see. Wendy debated with Professor Abhinay Muthoo, Head of Economics at the University of Warwick. The interview takes place near the end, at around 2:48:20.
