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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern (LSE) Ever since the publication of the seminal Stern Review on the economics of climate change in 2006, the author has been among the ...

Paul Solman: I first met Michael Meeropol at Elisabeth Irwin High School in what later became SoHo, in the Cold War ’50s. He was among the most personable kids at “EI,” surprising to some in that he ...

Economics remains dominated by men, both in terms of faculty members and students. New research suggests that while economics textbooks aren’t necessarily to blame, they’re not helping close the field ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1183494 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1183494 Copy URL The author examined 12 recent editions of principles of economics textbooks to ...

In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...