Economy 2.0: Microeconomics

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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The Economy 2.0 equips students with the tools to address today's pressing problems by facilitating mastery of the conceptual and quantitative tools of contemporary economics.

It challenges students to address various forms of inequality and social problems, introduces them to the most important tools and concepts used by people working with the economy, and motivates all models and concepts by evidence and real-world applications.

Hackett Publishing Company is the distributor of the English-language print book editions of CORE Econ's The Economy 2.0, a two-volume second edition of The Economy 1.0. The print book edition of the first volume, The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics, will be released in April 2024, followed by the Macroeconomics volume in the fall of 2024.

Visit the CORE Econ website (www.core-econ.org) to review the free, open-access digital edition of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics and request access to free instructor and student resources, including a test bank with over 1000 auto-gradable questions with explanatory feedback, Financial Times and Economist articles mapped to CORE Econ, editable lecture slides, and more.

Reviews

"Teaches both the tools of the discipline and the way real economies work, making it useful and fun at the same time."
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
"The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics covers all the microeconomics that matters today for the economists of tomorrow. From inequality to climate change, from game theory to empirical techniques, state-of-the-art topics and methods intertwine and flow seamlessly, making this a wonderful book for instructors and students everywhere."
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
"A novel combination of analytical rigour and highly motivating applications that engages students in learning how economic models work."
Leah Boustan, Princeton University
"The best innovation in economic education that I have seen in my career."
Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics

Author Bio

The CORE Econ team is made up of leading economists from around the world, led by:

Samuel Bowles Head of the Behavioural Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

Wendy Carlin Director of CORE project, Professor of Economics at University College London, external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute, and a Research Fellow of the CEPR.

Margaret Stevens Professor and former Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.

Eileen Tipoe Senior Lecturer in School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, University of London.