The Economy 2.0 equips students with the tools to address today's pressing problems by facilitating mastery of the conceptual and quantitative tools of contemporary economics.

The Economy 2.0 equips students with the tools to address today's pressing problems by facilitating mastery of the conceptual and quantitative tools of contemporary economics. It challenges students to address various forms of inequality and social problems, introduces them to the most important tools and concepts used by people working with the economy, and motivates all models and concepts by evidence and real-world applications. Hackett Publishing Company is the distributor of the English-language print book editions of CORE Econ's The Economy 2.0, a two-volume second edition of The Economy 1.0. The print edition of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics is also available from Hackett. Open-access digital editions of The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics and The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics are available on the CORE econ website (https://www.core-econ.org).

TheEconomy 2.0: Macroeconomics Table of Contents: 

Unit 1. The supply side of the macroeconomy: Unemployment and real wages

Unit 2. Unemployment, wages, and inequality: Supply-side policies and institutions

Unit 3. Aggregate demand and the multiplier model

Unit 4. Inflation and unemployment

Unit 5. Macroeconomic policy: Inflation and unemployment

Unit 6. The financial sector: Debt, money, and financial markets

Unit 7. Macroeconomic policy in the global economy

Unit 8. Economic dynamics: Financial and environmental crises

Unit 9. Uneven development on a global scale

Unit 10. Government as economic actor: Economics, politics, and public policy