CORE Econ

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.
youtu.be/Lo5Gz9EnKl8?...

Spanish translation Units 4-7 are now online

🇪🇸 The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics Units 4-7 now available in Spanish 🇪🇸 Following the release of Units 1-3 in July, Units 4-7 of La economía 2.0: microeconomía are now available on the CORE website books.core-econ.org/the-economy/...

YouTube video by CORE Econ Students taught using CORE perform better in all subjects

📈 Students taught with CORE do better in every subject.
New research from @latrobeuni.bsky.social shows CORE texts boost performance across the board. Watch Associate Professor Buly Cardak explain the findings, now published in Southern Economic Journal.
youtu.be/YxJmRriFg6A?...

A quote from Tamo Halder about his new AI tool

CORE’s The Economy is helping power a new AI learning assistant designed to tackle caste-based inequalities in India.
Our friends at @stoneeconucl.bsky.social spoke with Tamo, its creator, about his forthcoming tool and how it could support more inclusive economics education: tinyco.re/4449153

Timings are of course subject to change, but we're doing everything we can to stick to them.

Spanish translation timeline for CORE's The Economy 2.0.

Release timeline for Spanish translations of The Economy 2:0 Microeconomics & The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics.
Huge thanks to our translators @jmien2es.bsky.social, Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro, & editors Luz Marina Arias, Antonio Cabrales, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Humberto Llavador, and Francesc Trillas.

Hola 🇪🇸 La economía 2.0: microeconomía, the Spanish translation of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics, is now available on the CORE website: www.core-econ.org/the-economy/...

YouTube video by CORE Econ Simon Johnson: How do good institutions influence economic growth?

We're delighted to share the first of our new Economist In Action videos. @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social explains how to find out whether rich countries have good institutions because they are rich, or whether they are rich because their institutions are good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n91H...

A new paper, ChatGPT as Economics Tutor: Capabilities and Limitations, has used CORE’s The Economy 1.0 as a reference text. The paper’s aim is to assess the ability of ChatGPT to explain economic concepts and answer multiple-choice questions. Find out more on our website www.core-econ.org/press/

word cloud 2024

What is the most pressing problem economists today should be addressing? The results of our annual word cloud exercise, where we ask CORE students around the world to answer this question, are now online. Take a look here: www.core-econ.org/what-is-the-... #inequality #inflation

Government debt and sovereign wealth in the Global South cover image

🎉 New Insight available 🎉
Government debt and sovereign wealth in the Global South, by Oscar Landerretche, Universidad de Chile, provides a practical example of the constrained choice model from sections 3.2-3.6 of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics. Read it here:
www.core-econ.org/insights/gov...

America and Its Universities Need a New Social Contract Fifty dollars for STEM, five cents for citizenship—that’s how America apportions its education dollars. Our beleaguered universities must redress the balance—helping the country and themselves.

We’re proud to have been mentioned by @harvard.edu Professor Danielle Allen in an article for @theatlantic.com. Danielle commended our efforts to make the teaching of economics more relevant to present day economic realities. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...