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 ...

A professor of economics, John Bouman knows how quickly college textbooks can deflate students? savings. Bouman, a professor at Howard Community College, recently authored two electronic college ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WASHINGTON — Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...