Simon Halliday

As a research affiliate, Simon Halliday will continue working on a new introductory economics textbook Understanding the Economy (UTE) as part of the enCOREage project. UTE builds on the work that CORE has already done with The Economy and Economy, Society, and Public Policy. The enCOREage project seeks to address the systemic failure of U.S. colleges and universities to educate our least well off and under-represented minority students. In Understanding the Economy, Halliday and collaborators will introduce content (for the most part new to introductory economics) that draws students in because the topics it addresses confront societal problems that we know interest them and builds employability skills; adopt best practices from modern learning science, which have struggled to find a home in economics instruction; and address student belonging and inclusion.

Halliday is an associate research professor and associate director at the Center for Economy and Society, SNF Agora Institute, at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins, Halliday (alongside Glory Liu and Angus Burgin) leads the new major in Moral and Political Economy (MPE). He has co-authored (with Samuel Bowles) an intermediate-level microeconomics textbook: Microeconomics: Competition, Conflict, and Coordination (OUP, 2022) and works in economics education, behavioral and experimental economics, in particular, on experiments to understand social preferences. He was a CASBS fellow in 2023-24. 

For more information about his work, visit simondhalliday.com