Economy, Society, and Public Policy

Description

Economy, Society, and Public Policy is a new way to learn economics. The only resource to show students from any programme of study how to use economics to understand and articulate reasoned views on some of the most pressing policy problems facing our societies: inequality, financial instability, the future of work, environmental degradation, wealth creation, and innovation. 

Free online resources at: core-econ.org/resources.

FOR LEARNERS

• Economist in Action videos by Al Roth, James Heckman, Anat Admati, Juliet Schor, Thomas Piketty, Petra Moser and others give you a glimpse of what economists do and how they engage in real policy questions
• Diagrams with step-by-step explanations

FOR INSTRUCTORS:

• Lecture slides in PowerPoint format
• Slides of figures
• Answers to exercises with teaching ideas

Economy, Society, and Public Policy is accompanied by Doing Economics, a free open-access e-book which helps students develop their quantitative skills using real-world problems and data: www.core-econ.org/doing-economics.