Lars P. Syll — A new paradigm for teaching economics

Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin.

I would say that CORE is an update rather than a new version.

Lars P. Syll’s Blog
A new paradigm for teaching economics
Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University

How Economics Is Forging Renewed Links With Social Sciences — Arjun Jayadev, Rajiv Sethi, Wendy Carlin and Samuel Bowles

About the CORE Curriculum.

The Wire
How Economics Is Forging Renewed Links With Social Sciences

Arjun Jayadev, Rajiv Sethi, Wendy Carlin and Samuel Bowles

Bill Mitchell — Paradigm shift – not from the CORE Econ Project – as mainstream as you will get

Next Friday (September 22, 2017), I will be presenting at a panel on developments associated with the proposed MMT University and our new MMT Macroeconomics textbook, which will be published by Macmillan in April 2018. The panel will present during the First International MMT Conference, to be held in Kansas City. In part, my contribution will be to discuss the general pedagogical concerns that we (Randy Wray, Martin Watts and myself) had as we wrote the textbook over what turned out to be several years. 

We were confronted with the situation that we want our textbook to be used as widely as possible in the first and second years of a typical undergraduate program, but also didn’t want to fall into the trap of compromising what we considered to be a unified body of theory based upon Modern Monetary Theory (MMMT) for what other colleagues (particularly, mainstream academics) would claim to be necessary material to prepare a student for the labour market. 

We now have what we believe is a very strong two-year sequence in macroeconomics, firmly founded on MMT principles, with a good balance between discursive narrative, historical context, empirical challenge, and formal (mathematical) reasoning. When one compares it to other post-GFC developments in the pedagogy of macroeconomics, some of which have received the headlines in the past week, I think the curriculum embodied in our text is progressive, consistent, and doesn’t fall into the typical neoliberal default regarding governments and the monetary system....

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Bill Mitchell – billy blog

Paradigm shift – not from the CORE Econ Project – as mainstream as you will get

Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Ramanan — A New Way To Learn Economics?

Ramanan comments on CORE Econ.

The Case for Concerted Action
A New Way To Learn Economics?
V. Ramanan

John Cassidy — A New Way to Learn Economics

A group of economists from both sides of the Atlantic, part of a project called core Econ, has put together a new introductory economics curriculum, one that is modern, comprehensive, and freely available online.

In this country, many colleges encourage Econ 101 students to buy (or rent) expensive textbooks, which can cost up to three hundred dollars, or even morefor some hardcover editions. The core curriculum includes a lengthy e-book titled “The Economy,” lecture slides, and quizzes to test understanding. Some of the material has already been used successfully at colleges like University College London and Sciences Po, in Paris.…

The core approach isn’t particularly radical. (Students looking for expositions of Marxian economics or Modern Monetary Theory will have to look elsewhere.)...

OK. But thanks for the shout out anyway.

The New Yorker
A New Way to Learn Economics
John Cassidy