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The Economist: Efforts to modernise economics teaching are gathering steam
25 March 2021
recently discussed the modernisation of Economics teaching, including highlighting the revolutionary CORE textbook, which forms the cornerstone of the Department of Economics鈥� first year BSc Economics programme. Developed by , an open knowledge global collaboration of economic researchers, including UCL Professor and听CORE project director, Wendy Carlin, the free textbook听"starts with inequality, rather than presenting it as an afterthought".
听is based at 皇家华人鈥檚 Department of Economics and aims to听reform the teaching of economics to address today鈥檚 pressing problems 鈥� innovation, inequality, environmental sustainability, instability 鈥� linking to data and history, and incorporating recent economic research. A global coalition of researchers and teachers is developing free, high-quality, interactive online resources. CORE鈥檚 e-book,听, is used in instruction in 368 universities in 61 countries.
听is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is leading听the CORE project - to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum. She discusses the CORE philosophy in the below video.