{"id":497,"date":"2014-10-23T12:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=497"},"modified":"2014-10-23T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:09:41","slug":"a-paradox-to-savor-a-high-quality-free-economics-textbook-david-bollier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"A Paradox to Savor: A High-Quality, Free Economics Textbook | David Bollier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bollier.org\/blog\/paradox-savor-high-quality-free-economics-textbook\">A Paradox to Savor: A High-Quality, Free Economics Textbook | David Bollier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The economist Paul Samuelson once wrote, \u201cI don&#8217;t care who writes a nation&#8217;s laws\u2014or crafts its advanced treaties\u2014if I can write its economics textbooks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">What a pleasure to learn that an insurgent team of economists,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/core-econ.org\/\">The Core Project<\/a>, is about to rewrite the nation\u2019s laws.\u00a0 The new introductory economics textbook is called\u00a0<em>The Economy<\/em>.\u00a0 It is surely the most daring, cosmopolitan and empirically driven textbook since Samuelson\u2019s tome was unleashed on undergraduates in 1948.\u00a0 It is also packed with innovations worthy of our digital age. The Core Project\u2019s sardonic tagline says it well:\u00a0 \u201cTeaching economics as if the last three decades had happened.\u201d\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 284px; height: 312px; float: left; margin: 1px; border: 1px solid initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/bollier.org\/sites\/default\/files\/u6\/Screen%20Shot%202014-10-22%20at%204.48.40%20PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">This is not your grandfather\u2019s econ textbook.\u00a0 Nor is it an exercise in ideological spin or neoliberal bashing. In both style and substance, Core-Econ (the name for the Core Project&#8217;s website) shakes off the dreary norms of conventional economics and embraces the critical intelligence of the real world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Paradox to Savor: A High-Quality, Free Economics Textbook | David Bollier. The economist Paul Samuelson once wrote, \u201cI don&#8217;t care who writes a nation&#8217;s laws\u2014or crafts its advanced treaties\u2014if I can write its economics textbooks.\u201d What a pleasure to learn that an insurgent team of economists,\u00a0The Core Project, is about to rewrite the nation\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[167,244,246,794],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-core-project","tag-economics-2","tag-economy","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}