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About CORE Econ

CORE (Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics) Econ

CORE Econ’s vision is that a radically transformed economics education can contribute to a more just, sustainable, and democratic world in which future citizens are empowered by a new economics to understand and debate how best to address pressing societal problems. Our mission, to achieve this vision, is to

• change economics education globally to a focus on the most important problems faced by our societies including climate change, injustice, innovation and the future of work,
• put the student at the centre of pedagogy using learning materials and experiences attuned both to the societal problems that students care about and to how students acquire facility and confidence in using and communicating economics,
• make knowledge freely available on a global scale by providing high-quality open access educational resources,
• help change who studies economics to include more women and other underrepresented groups by changing content, pedagogy and access to knowledge.

About Stone Econ

A $7 million donation from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation in September 2021 established the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality, and the Economy at the UCL Department of Economics. The Centre launched on 26 May 2022 with guest speakers including James and Cathleen Stone, James Heckman, Angus Deaton, Arin Dube, and John Van Reenen.

The Stone Foundation promotes a more knowledgeable and inclusive society, with a special emphasis on the mitigation of wealth inequality. It has carried out this mission by establishing a network of Stone Centres, each specialised in the research on a specific facet of wealth inequality.‍

The mission of the Stone Centre at UCL is to advance research and teaching to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences.

• ‍The uniqueness of the Centre is to make education and research equal partners in the venture. It pairs up CORE Econ, which is changing economics education globally to focus on the most important problems faced by our societies, with the research powerhouse of the UCL Department of Economics. It will provide a global hub for research and learning that will make wealth concentration and its impacts on innovation and sustainability central to an economics education.