CORE and The Economy

[jducoeur]

h/t to The Economist for pointing out the CORE project. It sounds really useful: a low-BS introduction to economics, designed for non-specialist students.

Basically, it's a reaction to the tradition of ridiculously over-simplifying economics in introductory classes, and only getting into the real, messy meat of the topic in advanced ones, with the result that generations of students have come out without an understanding of how economics works in the real world.

CORE takes a very different approach: dozens of contributors from around the world, adducing examples of how economics really works in an online book covering the topic from many different angles. They don't shy away from the math, but stick the more complex bits into "Leibnizes", off to the side if you are willing to deal with calculus.

I've just started glancing through it, but it looks delightful. Check it out...