UCL’s radical approach to economics teaching sparks a global trend

A new approach to teaching economics in universities and pioneered at UCL is spreading throughout the world and has earned plaudits from commentators, academics and students. Anyone anywhere in the world has access for free to the ebook The Economy produced by a global collaboration of economists. This month, to complement the free ebook, Oxford University Press will publish a physical book. The new method known as CORE teaches the tools of economics by beginning with contemporary economic problems including inequality, climate change, the future of work, and financial stability. Courses based on CORE are now taught in top universities including Sciences Po, the Toulouse School of Economics, Middlebury College, Humboldt University, Stockholm University, the University of Sydney, the Lahore University of Management Sciences, the University of Chile, and many more. More than 4,000 university teachers worldwide have registered for access to the teaching resources. It all began less than five years ago after the global financial crisis amid student dissatisfaction with economics curricula.