Open Educational Resources (OER): Economics

Open Access introductory text for undergraduates. Registration is required but is easy to do. Text is available as printable PDFs or as an Inkling app for the IPad.

This YouTube crash course series with Jacob Clifford and Adriene Hill starts out by discussing what economics is and is not.

Directory of academic, peer-reviewed books

Learn the key macroeconomic and microeconomics indicators and how they drive economic policy and financial decision-making. Explore topics in risk management, pricing models, globalization and more with courses from Caltech, MIT, TsinghuaX and other top institutions worldwide.

We aim to enhance the quality of learning and teaching throughout the Higher Education economics community.

Future Learn provides courses on economics such as The Politics of Economics and the Economics of Politician, Economics of Crime, Exploring Economics: Will the Next Generation be Worse Off?.

Videos and lessons that define Economics and introduce some of the fundamental tools and perspectives economists use to understand the world around us.

Khan Academy features instructional videos that span topics covered in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at the introductory college level.

Lumen Learning provides a textbook on Economics that covers various chapters such as Economic Growth, Challenges to Efficient Outcomes, and Unemployment.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

Principles of Microeconomics is an introductory undergraduate course that teaches the fundamentals of microeconomics. This course introduces microeconomic concepts and analysis, supply and demand analysis, theories of the firm and individual behavior, competition and monopoly, and welfare economics. Students will also be introduced to the use of microeconomic applications to address problems in current economic policy throughout the semester.

MIT's Economics department offers an extensive series of online courses. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more.

Provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for Economic studies.

The Open Economics Working Group is run by the Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the Centre for Intellectual and Property Law (CIPIL) at the University of Cambridge.

Open Stax provides a collection of textbooks on Principles of Economics, Principles of Microeconomics, and Principles of Macroeconomics.

The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.

The Department of Economics at Yale offers a wide spectrum of courses for both specialists and non-specialists alike. For undergraduate majors, a core of courses in macro- and microeconomics, mathematics, and econometrics is required. Advanced courses offer training in economic history, finance, theory, international and developmental economics, market organization, human resources, and the public sector.

HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access services to digitized content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house member institution initiatives.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

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Open access journals in Economics

Open access documents in Economics