With a new academic year starting, Wendy Carlin dropped by The Inequality Podcast to reflect on what we teach with @sndurlauf. Listen here:

🎉 Thanks to @RoyalEconSoc's @leightonc 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 substack:

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RT @leightonc: On #ALevelResultsDay:.- 5.5% increase in entries for Economics, vs -0.5% for all subjects, +1.5% all STEM, -1.8% for SHAPE.….

RT @UCStoneCenter: Econ 101 usually sticks to perfect models. The CORE project (@coreeconteam) is trying to change that by tackling climate….

🇪🇸 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.

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

🇪🇸 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.

📈 Students taught with CORE do better in every subject. New research from @latrobe University shows CORE texts boost performance across the board. Watch Associate Professor @CardakEconomics explain the findings, now published in Southern Economic Journal.

CORE’s The Economy is helping power a new AI learning assistant designed in India. Our friends at the @StoneEcon_UCL spoke with Tamo, its creator, about his forthcoming tool and how it could support more inclusive economics education:

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

Here's the release timeline for Spanish translations of The Economy 2:0 Micro & The Economy 2.0: Macro. Huge thanks to our translators Jose Izquierdo, Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro, & editors Luz Marina Arias, Antonio Cabrales, @jccardenas1965, Humberto Llavador, and @FrancescTrillas.

Hola 🇪🇸 La economía 2.0: microeconomía, the Spanish translation of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics, is now available on the CORE website:

We're delighted to share the first of our new Economist In Action videos. Simon Johnson (@baselinescene) explains how to find out if rich countries have good institutions because they are rich, or if they are rich because their institutions are good.

A new paper, ChatGPT as Economics Tutor: Capabilities and Limitations, has used CORE’s The Economy 1.0 as a reference text. The paper aims to assess the ability of ChatGPT to explain economic concepts & answer multiple-choice questions. Find out more:

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:

🎉 New Insight out now 🎉.Government debt & 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 here:

We’re proud to have been mentioned by @Harvard .Professor Danielle Allen @dsallentess in an article for.@TheAtlantic. Danielle commended our efforts to make the teaching of economics more relevant to present day economic realities. Read more here:

The Economy 2.0 Test Bank for Microeconomics (Units 1-10) is now available for teachers! 🎉 Access it now!