Tag: economic and social inequality

ECI Modules Round-Up: Innovative Teaching Resources on Key Economic Issues

By Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar The Economics in Context Initiative (ECI) has developed a series of teaching modules on various environmental and social issues in economics with the goal of advancing the teaching of economics to make it more relevant to understand real-world issues. These modules are grounded in reliable analysis of the world and the […]

Social and Economic Inequality

By Brian Roach, Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar, Neva Goodwin and Jonathan M. Harris This module, based on Chapter 10 of Microeconomics in Context, 5th edition, provides an overview of some of the key issues on economic and social inequality, looking beyond income measures to explore inequalities based on education, health care and discrimination in the labor market. […]