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Economics for a changing world. The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics is now available online. It's free. Visit our website.
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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 🇩🇪
Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)
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🎉 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...
A new CORE Inflation Insight has been published on the CORE website
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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...
Lisa Cook: What promotes or kills innovation?
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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...
Francesc Trillas
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Thanks Peter. Feel free to register as an instructor on our website and take a look around our instructor resources.
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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...
The Inequality Podcast episode 36: Wendy Carlin on changing economics’ “CORE” curriculum
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📈 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 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.
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🎉 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-...
Economics A-level entries up - biggly
Today’s A‑level results are good news for Economics.
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🇪🇸 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.
All units of The Economy 2.0 Microeconomics Spanish translation are now available on the CORE website.
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📣 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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Mushtaq Khan: How Bangladesh surmounted market failures to become a leading garment exporter
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🇪🇸 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/...
Spanish translation Units 4-7 are now online
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📈 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.
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Students taught using CORE perform better in all subjects
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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
A quote from Tamo Halder about his new AI tool
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Timings are of course subject to change, but we're doing everything we can to stick to them.
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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.
Spanish translation timeline for CORE's The Economy 2.0.
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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/...
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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.
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Simon Johnson: How do good institutions influence economic growth?
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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/
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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
word cloud 2024
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🎉 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:
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