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, will be released in April 2024, followed by the Macroeconomics volume in the fall of 2024. The open-access digital edition of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics is available on the CORE econ website.

Instructors: If you would like to consider the print book edition of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics as a textbook for your class (where, if adopted, you would require your students to purchase a print book copy of the textbook), we welcome you to request a free print book examination copy using this form. 

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:

If you are an instructor and would like to consider the print book edition of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics as a textbook for your class (where, if adopted, you would require your students to purchase a print book copy of the textbook), we welcome you to request a free print book examination copy using this form. 

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 forthcoming print book editions of the Economy 2.0: Microeconomics (spring 2024) and The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics (fall 2024) 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.