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Revised Economic Thinking for a New World: New Editions of the “In Context” Textbooks

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By Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar As the world has undergone seismic shifts over the last few years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rising social and economic inequality and the escalating climate crisis, new approaches to economics are needed to reflect the complexities of this rapidly evolving world.  The latest editions of Microeconomics in Context and Macroeconomics […]

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Putting Modern Economics in Context: Lessons from a Soviet Curriculum Reform Project

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By Stacey Yuen Editor’s note: This blog post is based on an interview with Dr. Neva Goodwin conducted in May 2021. In 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Academy of Sciences began sourcing for an American economics textbook for translation and use in the Soviet Union. They requested help from […]

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