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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...