The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics

The Economy 2.0 equips students with the tools to address today’s pressing problems by facilitating mastery of the conceptual and quantitative tools of contemporary economics. It challenges students to address various forms of inequality and social problems, introduces them to the most important tools and concepts used by people working with the economy, and motivates all models and concepts by evidence and real-world applications. Hackett Publishing Company is the distributor of the English-language print book editions of CORE Econ's The Economy 2.0, a two-volume second edition of The Economy 1.0. The print book edition of the first volume, The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics is now available and will be followed by the Macroeconomics volume in late spring 2025 (print edition). The open-access digital edition of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics, and most units of the Macroeconomics volumes are available on the CORE econ website.

The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics Table of Contents:

• Preface. We're changing the way economics is taught
• Unit 1. Prosperity, inequality, and planetary limits
• Unit 2. Technology and incentives
• Unit 3. Doing the best you can: Scarcity, wellbeing, and working hours
• Unit 4. Strategic interactions and social dilemmas
• Unit 5. The rules of the game: Who gets what and why
• Unit 6. The firm and its employees
• Unit 7. The firm and its customers
• Unit 8. Supply and demand: Markets with many buyers and sellers
• Unit 9. Lenders and borrowers and differences in wealth
• Unit 10. Market successes and failures: The societal effects of private decisions

Additional instructor and student resources:

Visit the CORE Econ website for a complete list of free instructor and student resources, including:

FOR LEARNERS:

• online Extensions that provide additional mathematics content
• diagrams with step-by-step explanations
• interactive diagrams building a model or explaining data video tutorials of key concepts

FOR INSTRUCTORS:

• over 1000 auto-gradable questions, with explanatory feedback, for use in lectures, tutorials, or tests to check students’ understanding
• lecture slides in PowerPoint and LaTeX formats
• answers to exercises
• teaching guides

Print book examination (review) copies for instructors:

Instructors in the U.S. and Canada: If you would like to consider The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics as a required course text we welcome you to order a print book examination copy on the Hackett website by selecting the examination copy format/price when adding the book to your shopping cart (see above) and entering the required course information on the shopping cart page before checkout. 

Instructors in Europe: Qualified instructors teaching in Europe are eligible to receive a 30% off coupon code for ordering a print book instructor copy of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics on the Gazelle Book Services website. To request the 30% off Gazelle coupon code, please complete the form on this page. Requests are processed within one business day. Gazelle is Hackett's distributor in the U.K. and Europe. The 30% off coupon code is only valid for single-copy instructor orders on the Gazelle website. 

Instructors in all other territories: Please email marketing @ hackettpublishing.com for special order options.

Reviews:

"Teaches both the tools of the discipline and the way real economies work, making it useful and fun at the same time."
—Dani Rodrik, Harvard University

"The best innovation in economic education that I have seen in my career."
—Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics

"The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics covers all the microeconomics that matters today for the economists of tomorrow. From inequality to climate change, from game theory to empirical techniques, state-of-the-art topics and methods intertwine and flow seamlessly, making this a wonderful book for instructors and students everywhere.”
—Oriana Bandiera, Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

"A novel combination of analytical rigour and highly motivating applications that engages students in learning how economic models work."
—Leah Boustan, Princeton University

About the Authors:

The CORE Econ team is made up of leading economists from around the world, led by:

Samuel Bowles Head of the Behavioural Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

Wendy Carlin Director of CORE project, Professor of Economics at University College London, external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute, and a Research Fellow of the CEPR.

Margaret Stevens Professor and former Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.

Eileen Tipoe Senior Lecturer in School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, University of London.

Booksellers:

Hackett Publishing Company is the exclusive distributor of the print book editions of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics (available now) and The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics (spring/summer 2025) volumes. If you are a bookseller in North America, please email customer@hackettpublishing.com for bookseller terms and to place an order. If you are a bookseller in the U.K. or continental Europe, please contact our European distributor, Gazelle Book Services. Individual customers in Europe can purchase copies of the print book directly on the Gazelle Book Services website.