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YouTube video by CORE Econ A guide to inflation and hyperinflation: CORE Insight from the Global South with Paul Segal

What is inflation? What is hyperinflation? How can it be controlled? Paul Segal (IAE Business School, Austral University, Argentina) explores these questions in his CORE Insight from the Global South "The sky’s the limit: The economics of inflation & hyperinflation". www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEFI...

CORE publishing documentation

Quality matters. That’s why our quality control goes far beyond typical publishing projects. Get a behind-the-scenes look in our free, searchable publishing documentation:
www.core-econ.org/cores-publis...

2026 CORE Workshop, 30-31st March, Loughborough University

Registrations are open for the 2026 CORE Workshop at @lborouniversity.bsky.social. Secure your spot and check out the full programme here: tinyco.re/2026Workshop

When GenAI can solve problem sets in seconds, how should teaching change? Wendy Carlin joins Tim Phillips @talknormal.co.uk on the @cepr.org VoxTalks Economics podcast to discuss how economics instructors can adapt. Listen here: audioboom.com/posts/882797...

Congratulations to CORE Director Wendy Carlin, who has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The honour recognises Wendy's dedication to making economics education accessible to all through CORE's free, open-source teaching resources 🎉
@ucl.ac.uk @ucleconomics.bsky.social

Beatrice Mbinya

Meet Beatrice Mbinya 🇰🇪, the Kenyan economist featured in the preface of The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics. Beatrice spoke with us about her journey studying economics in Kenya, and finding her passion for economics through CORE’s macro textbook: www.core-econ.org/meet-beatric...

YouTube video by CORE Econ UCL's Ramin Nassehi explains how to use CORE's test bank

Learn how to access 1000+ FREE test bank questions for The Economy 1.0 & 2.0. Huge thanks to @ucl.ac.uk's Ramin Nassehi for this fantastic walkthrough video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zJM...

YouTube video by CORE Econ Stephen Wright introduces CORE's The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics Units 6, 7 and 9

To celebrate the full release of CORE’s The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics, Professor Stephen Wright (University of London) guides you through the key themes of Units 6, 7, and 9. Thank you, Stephen!
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To celebrate the complete release of CORE’s The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics, Nobel laureate Simon Johnson (simonrjohnson.bsky.social) takes you to London Paddington Station for a rapid-fire history lesson illustrating the key themes of Units 9 and 10. Thanks Simon!

The Economy 2.0 Chinese edition cover

📢 Thanks to our friends at Fudan University, the Chinese translation of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics Units 1–3 is now complete! Read it on the CORE website: books.core-econ.org/the-economy/...

The cover of the new CORE Insight - Informality and the capitalist economy

🎉New CORE Insight 🎉 Rosa Abraham & Amit Basole discuss how structural change occurs in the dual economies of low- and middle-income countries, and the role of economic policies and civil society efforts in promoting this transition. Read here: books.core-econ.org/insights/inf...

CORE's macroeconomics textbook is now available in full

🎉 Units 9 & 10 are now live!
With their release, CORE's The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics is now complete. As with all CORE materials, it's freely available on the CORE website.

IEA submission deadline

📢 Calling all researchers! 📢 Don’t miss your last chance to submit a paper for the International Economic Association World Congress. Many from the CORE community will be presenting. Join them by submitting before Saturday, Nov 15.
More info here: ieawc2026.org/submission/

Test your knowledge of #inequality. CORE author Sam Bowles has co-authored a new book of problem sets packed with real-world data. Sam explains how the book helps students learn more about the things they care about.
openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

A new CORE Insight has been released. This image shows the Insight.

🎉 New CORE Insight 🎉 Maria Laura Alzua (CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina and Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), Kenya) explores the challenge of improving public health in the Global South. Read it on the CORE website: books.core-econ.org/insights/pub...

Members of the TREES team

How can we teach economists to think ethically and critically? 🌍 The TREES team at Uniandes is using CORE resources develop new exercises — and they would love you to contribute: www.core-econ.org/trees-projec...
#EthicalEconomics #CriticalThinking #GlobalSouth

CORE Econ is able to offer a small stipend to help cover some of the costs of attending the workshop. This support is available to graduate students only. Once registration opens, you’ll be able to apply for the stipend.

CORE Econ workshop 2026, Mon 30th Tues 31st March

📢Save the date📢
CORE Econ Workshop 2026
@lborouniversity.bsky.social
www.core-econ.org/announcing-t...
Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st March 2026

YouTube video by CORE Econ CORE Income Shock Simulator explained by Andrés Álvarez

Andrés Álvarez, Economist at UniAndes, very kindly created a fantastic video tour of the Income Shock Simulator featured on the CORE website. We're very grateful to Andrés for creating this detailed overview 🔗 income-shocks-simulator.core-econ.org youtu.be/ekg2_-Oiu4Q

Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)

The @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social will host an online event, “Die Wirtschaft”, on 25.09.25. Friend of CORE Christian Tode will be speaking at the event. For more information visit: zbw.eu/de/wissenstr...
The event will be in German 🇩🇪

A new CORE Inflation Insight has been published on the CORE website

🎉 New Insight now online 🎉
@paulsegal.bsky.social explores the multiple mechanisms that underlie inflation in CORE's latest Insight from the Global South. Read it on the CORE website: books.core-econ.org/insights/eco...

YouTube video by CORE Econ Lisa Cook: What promotes or kills innovation?

Lisa Cook continues her work today at the Fed’s meeting. Watch her CORE Econ Economist in Action video on how different institutions can kill or promote innovation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2hj...

Francesc Trillas

Grateful to have Catalan government economist @francesctrillas.bsky.social with us, sharing why he values CORE’s approach to economics education. Read the interview here: www.core-econ.org/catalan-gove...

Thanks Peter. Feel free to register as an instructor on our website and take a look around our instructor resources.

The Inequality Podcast episode 36: Wendy Carlin on changing economics’ “CORE” curriculum

With a new academic year starting, Wendy Carlin dropped by The Inequality Podcast to reflect on what we teach with @durlauf.bsky.social. Listen here: pod.link/1693218758/e...

Economics A-level entries surge 5.5% in 2025, climbing into UK’s top ten subjects - Royal Economic Society Economics is now the eighth most popular A-level in England and the tenth in the UK, with entries up 36% since 2020.

📈 In case you missed it - #Economics is now the 8th most popular A-level in England & 10th in the UK, with entries up 36% since 2020.

In 2025, entries rose 5.5%, bucking the trend of declines across most subjects.

🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/h1V40

#RESNews #EconSky

Economics A-level entries up - biggly Today’s A‑level results are good news for Economics.

🎉 Thanks to @resmedia.bsky.social's Leighton Chipperfield for noting CORE's efforts to make economics teaching more relevant, as he comments on a 5.5% increase in students choosing A level economics. Read the full post on Leighton's substack: leightonchipperfield.substack.com/p/economics-...

All units of The Economy 2.0 Microeconomics Spanish translation are now available on the CORE website.

🇪🇸 La economía 2.0: microeconomía is now fully available on the CORE website. Thanks to our translators Jose Izquierdo, Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro, & editors Luz Marina Arias, Antonio Cabrales, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Humberto Llavador, and Francesc Trillas.

Mushtaq Khan: How Bangladesh surmounted market failures to become a leading garment exporter

📣 New economist in action video: Mushtaq Khan: How Bangladesh surmounted market failures to become a leading garment exporter. Thanks the @uolondon.bsky.social & the Convocation Trust.
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