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Free and Open Resources: Economics

This guide is meant to provide students with additional high-quality academic resources that are free and available to all.

Subjects

Economics

On this page you will find several openly-licensed textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase some available materials.

Open Textbooks

   

 

Principles of Macroeconomics, University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, CC-BY-NC-SA.

Principles of Economics, OpenStax, CC-BY.

Intermediate Microeconomics, Oregon State University, CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Find more open textbooks in economics here.

Courses and Course Materials: Lectures, Videos, etc.

Learn economics on your time. MRU (Marginal Revolution University), from George Mason University, provides over 900 free videos, taught by top economists.

 

Starting Point is a website that introduces economists to innovative teaching strategies. Includes a collection example activities which can be used in the classroom.

 

Courses in economics as taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Content varies but can include lecture notes, videos, assignments with solutions, student project examples etc. CC BY-NC-SA

 

 

 

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