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 ...

Paul Solman: I first met Michael Meeropol at Elisabeth Irwin High School in what later became SoHo, in the Cold War ’50s. He was among the most personable kids at “EI,” surprising to some in that he ...

A curious series of hieroglyphics appears in the first pages of the classic 1984 textbook, Lectures on Macroeconomics. Recently experts decoded the symbols and were surprised to find a poem. NPR's ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State administrator and a faculty member in the College of Forest Resources are celebrating the January release of a co-authored, newly revised second edition of a ...

Twenty-one, one-semester introductory economics texts are reviewed in terms of goals and objectives, organization, mathematical and graphical analysis, readability, historical development, bias, ...

Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., a columnist for The Daily Signal, was a professor of economics at George Mason University until his death Dec. 2, 2020. A widely anticipated textbook, “Universal Economics,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Intermountain Power Agency coal-fired power plant outside Delta, Utah, on June 20. (George Frey/Bloomberg) Robert J. Samuelson’s June 24 op-ed, “It’s time we tear up our economics textbooks,” ...