This interview is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core-Econ together with our listeners. When you think of taking an ...

I’ve been teaching economics for 25 years, and yet I’ve routinely missed a perfect opportunity to explain how markets fail to deliver efficient solutions. It isn’t just me. During our first day of ...

Question: How would one find out what upper division macro-econ textbooks have been used in the last decade, which are used currently or are planned for use in the coming year(s) at the big shot ...

In light of recent economic turbulence and the Occupy movement, educational institutions are searching for the best ways to teach economics to their students. Earlier this month, around 70 Harvard ...

Tom Brady replaces Tiger Woods, not in endorsements, but economics. March 22, 2011 — -- Tiger Woods may have been so busy promoting new video game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12, that he missed the big ...

If you want to try to better understand the economy, ask University of Nevada, Reno Economics Professor Brad Schiller. He wrote the book on it, literally. Schiller's Essentials of Economics, first ...

A curious series of hieroglyphics appears in the first pages of the classic 1984 textbook, Lectures on Macroeconomics. Recently experts decoded the symbols and were surprised to find a poem. NPR's ...

While some economists specialize in bonds or Social Security, Mark Perry, a University of Michigan–Flint professor of economics and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., ...

We've heard stories of creative teachers using sneakers to enhance lesson plans, but it's pretty rare to find a dated textbook with this much heat on display. A Reddit user shared this photo from his ...