This interview is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core-Econ together with our listeners. When you think of taking an ...

I’ve been teaching economics for 25 years, and yet I’ve routinely missed a perfect opportunity to explain how markets fail to deliver efficient solutions. It isn’t just me. During our first day of ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1183494 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1183494 Copy URL The author examined 12 recent editions of principles of economics textbooks to ...

Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the United States. But the 61-year-old’s authority does not stem from advancing an arcane scholarly finding. Nor has ...

Economics remains dominated by men, both in terms of faculty members and students. New research suggests that while economics textbooks aren’t necessarily to blame, they’re not helping close the field ...

In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...

Tom Brady replaces Tiger Woods, not in endorsements, but economics. March 22, 2011 — -- Tiger Woods may have been so busy promoting new video game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12, that he missed the big ...