Authorship and production

The CORE Econ Editorial Board and lead authors for The Economy 2.0

… joined by

Sam Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Margaret Stevens, and Eileen Tipoe of the CORE Econ Editorial Board oversaw and coordinated contributions by teaching and learning experts, researchers, reviewers, instructors, students in the pilot universities, and editors, designers, and web developers. Eileen Tipoe led the development of questions, exercises and the guides for instructors. Cloda Jenkins, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, and Stephen Wright co-authored units and Tina Rozsos was responsible for data management and visualizations.

The lead authors of the units of The Economy 2.0 are listed below.

The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics (2023) The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics (2025)
1 Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi 1 Wendy Carlin, Samuel Bowles, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi
2 Margaret Stevens, Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Olivia Osei-Twumasi 2 Wendy Carlin, Samuel Bowles, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi
3 Margaret Stevens 3 Wendy Carlin, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, Stephen Wright
4 Samuel Bowles, Margaret Stevens, Cloda Jenkins, Olivia Osei-Twumasi 4 Wendy Carlin, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, Stephen Wright
5 Samuel Bowles, Margaret Stevens, Cloda Jenkins, Eileen Tipoe 5 Wendy Carlin, Stephen Wright, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi
6 Margaret Stevens, Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin 6 Stephen Wright, Margaret Stevens, Wendy Carlin, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, Eileen Tipoe
7 Margaret Stevens, Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin 7 Stephen Wright, Wendy Carlin, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, Eileen Tipoe
8 Margaret Stevens, Eileen Tipoe, Cloda Jenkins 8 Wendy Carlin, Samuel Bowles, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, Eileen Tipoe
9 Margaret Stevens, Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, Eileen Tipoe 9 Wendy Carlin, Samuel Bowles, Stephen Wright, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, Eileen Tipoe
10 Margaret Stevens, Cloda Jenkins, Samuel Bowles 10 Samuel Bowles, Margaret Stevens, Olivia Osei-Twumasi, Wendy Carlin

To cite a unit, use: Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Margaret Stevens, and Olivia Osei-Tumasi (2023). ‘Prosperity, inequality, and planetary limits’. Unit 1 in The CORE Econ Team, The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics. Available at https://books.core-econ.org/the-economy/microeconomics/01-prosperity-inequality-01-ibn-battuta.html. [Accessed on (date)]

In creating The Economy 2.0, the work of the co-authors of the related units in The Economy 1.0 (shown below) was used extensively.

The production of teaching and learning materials for The Economy 2.0

Rasmus Duret (UCL), Emily Glezer (UCL), Shivam Gujral (Cambridge University), Damian Phelan (UCL), Olivia Osei-Twusami (UCLA), Eileen Tipoe (QMUL), Bella Zheng (UCL).

Multiple-choice questions: Fatima Sadik (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi), Pedro A. Tamayo (UNED), Shelly Malhotra (Delhi Public School RK Puram), Biwei Chen (Colby College), Stephanie Brooks (Macquarie University), Varadurga Bhat (Christ University, Bangalore), Guido De Bruyne (KU Leuven), Yong Jiang (IHE Delft), Yuting Bai (Lancaster University), Igor Kim (HSE).

CORE Econ researchers and interns for The Economy 2.0

Mohamed Badr-Eddiac Lahrech (UCL), Maanavi Bansal (UCL), Ubaid Bhatti (University of Bristol), Francesco Cannone (UCL), Kadim Cole (University of Exeter), Rasmus Duret (UCL), Sam Glendenning (UCL), Emily Glezer (UCL), Phin Godfrey (UCL), Shivam Gujral (Cambridge University), Mihir Gupta (Cambridge University), Dana Gutu (University of Bristol), Moritz Heldman (UCL), Benjamin Hentschel (UCL), Emma Huang (UCL), Alexander Humphrey (University of Bristol), Vinayak Iyer (LSE), Ananya Khurana (UCL), Sedef Kocabalkan (UCL), Charyl Kong (UCL), Yashvi Kothari (UCL), Simran Krishna-Rogers (University of Oxford), Kavya Krishnan (UCL), Eduard Krkoska (University of Oxford), Claire Lançon (UCL), Aiden Leung (KCL), Leo Mengel (Bocconi University), Tzvetan Moev (KCL, Cambridge University), Arda Ozlemis (UCL), Sandra Paing (UCL), Damian Phelan (UCL), Manasa Sanjay (UCL), Ananya Pureti (UCL), Hannah Siew (UCL), Emma Spearman (UCL), Suraj Sridhar (UCL), Lucas Tang (UCL), Alex Tennant-Holder (University of Oxford), Khanh Trinh (UCL), Ravi Venugopal (UCL), Judy Wang (UCL), Miao Xu (UCL), Bella Zheng (UCL), Yitong Zhu (UCL).

Production team for The Economy 2.0

Jane Archer (The Economy 2.0 project manager), Luka Crnjakovic (CORE Econ operations manager), Hetty Marx (editor), Giacomo Piccoli and Graeme Cohen (CORE Econ Outreach and Adoptions).

Editorial, design, and software development: Arthur Attwell, Sasha Broom, Ellen Cameron, Lauren Ellwood, Louis Greenberg, Helen le Roux, Karen Lilje, Allison McKechnie, Laura Meredith, Kevala Rungopal, Emma Sacco, Klara Skinner, Kate Southwood, Louise Steward, Jade Toweel, Christina Tromp.

CORE Econ ‘Economist in action’ videos

The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics

Robert Allen (University of Oxford), Juan Camilo Cárdenas (Universidad de los Andes), Arin Dube (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Kathryn Graddy (Brandeis University), James Heckman (University of Chicago), Suresh Naidu (Columbia University), Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), Alvin Roth (Stanford University), Juliet Schor (Boston College), Anna Vitali (NYU). Directed by Bob Denham (Econ Films) and Ross Harrison.

The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics

Anat Admati (Stanford Business School), Claudia Buch (ECB), Esther Duflo (MIT), James Heckman (University of Chicago), Simon Johnson (MIT), Mushtaq Khan (SOAS), John Van Reenen (LSE), Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University), Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University), Isabella Webber (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Directed by Bob Denham (Econ Films).

Contributors

Claire Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Ihsaan Bassier, Corinne Baulcomb, Javier Boncompte Guarda, Stephen Broadberry, John Y. Campbell, Gilbert Cette, Jenny Corbett, Kenneth Creamer, Bridget Diana, Peter Dorman, Arin Dube, Marion Dumas, Kyoji Fukao, Carl Gergs, Georg von Graevenitz, Liam Graham, Rachel Griffith, Bishnupriya Gupta, David Hall, Simon Halliday, Joe Hazell, Ken Hori, Arjun Jayadev, Annika Johnson, Matthew Johnson, Simon Johnson, Yukinobu Kitamura, Gerda Kits, Margaret Leighton, Humberto Llavador, Elaine McCrate, Steve Machin, Suresh Naidu, Susie Nouhan, Kevin O’Rourke, Michal Páleník, Prasannan Parthasarathi, Max Roser, Matti Sarvimaki, Daniela Scur, Paul Segal, Rajiv Sethi, Eleonare Soubeyran, Petar Stankov, Nick Stern, Masanori Takashima, John Tang, Alexander Teytelboym, John Van Reenen, Gavin Wright, Stephen Wright, Eduardo Zambrano.

CORE Econ would also like to thank the contributors from The Economy 1.0, whose contributions have been important in the production of The Economy 2.0.