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University Economics: Changing How we Teach Economics
7th July 2014
There has been huge debate in recent months about possible reforms to the university core curriculum in economics. I myself spoke at a conference about this organised by Diane Coyle and held at the Bank of England in the spring of 2012. The book arising from that conference is available here from London Publishing Partnership: http://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/whats-the...
In this new video from the Royal Economic Society, Professor Wendy Carlin from UCL London describes Institute of New Economic Thinking CORE project (Curriculum in Open-access Resources in Economics) project, which aims to make the study of economics in universities more relevant to modern day economic issues. The video also features Tim Harford, the best-selling Undercover Economist!
You can explore more about the reformed curriculum by clicking this link: http://core-econ.org
Here is a streamed presentation of my recent session on heuristics, networks and the economics of trust
Heuristics, Networks and Trust - Moving Away from Standard Economics from tutor2u
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.