Economy, Society, and Public Policy
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See moreEconomy, Society, and Public Policy is a new way to learn economics. It is the only resource that shows 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 are available 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: core-econ.org/doing-economics.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781647922061
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 March 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 203.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 1186g
Pages: 632
About the Author
The CORE Econ Team is made up of leading economists from around the world, led by:
Wendy Carlin, Director of CORE Econ, Professor of Economics at University College London, and a Research Fellow of the CEPR.
Samuel Bowles, Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute.
Margaret Stevens, Professor and former head of the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.
Eileen Tipoe, Reader in School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, University of London.
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