Research Guides: Open Educational Resources by Subject Disciplines: Economics

e-Textbooks

Economics: Theory Through Applications
From Saylor Academy
Introduction to Economic Analysis
From Saylor Academy
Macroeconomics: Theory, Markets, and Policy
From Saylor Academy
Macroeconomics: Theory Through Applications
From Saylor Academy
Microeconomics: Markets, Methods, and Models
From Saylor Academy
Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications
From Saylor Academy
Money and Banking
From Open Textbook Library
Principles of Economics
From OpenStax
Principles of Economics
From Saylor Academy
Principles of Macroeconomics
From OpenStax
Principles of Macroeconomics
From Saylor Academy
Principles of Managerial Economics
From Saylor Academy
Principles of Microeconomics
From Saylor Academy
Principles of Microeconomics
From OpenStax

Saylor Foundation

Saylor offers free courses as modules that can be incorporated into your class or used as supplemental material.

ECON101: Principles of Microeconomics
Provides a basic understanding of microeconomic principles. Analyzes the economic factors influencing decisions made at the individual level, after evaluating resources, costs, and tradeoffs.
ECON102: Principles of Macroeconomics
Exploration of the factors that impact the overall performance of economies. The course focuses on public policies helping and hindering the achievement of intended outcomes, such as reducing unemployment or increasing trade.
ECON201: Intermediate Microeconomics
Rigorous introduction to resource allocation in a market economy, with particular emphasis on supply and demand interaction, utility maximization, profit maximization, elasticity, perfect competition, monopoly power, imperfect competition, and game theory.
ECON202: Intermediate Macroeconomics
Advanced treatment of the dynamics of the macro-economy, which includes topics related to the determination of aggregate output, the determination of the interest rate, business cycle theories and stabilization, the stock market, household and firm behavior in the macro-economy, and debates in macroeconomics.
ECON307: International Trade
Detailed survey of the theory behind international trade, trade policy issues, and the implications of tariffs and non-tariff barriers for trade and welfare. Covers theory of exchange rates, international finance, and global capital market.

Open Course Library

Open Course Library was developed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Washington State Legislature. This material is created under a Creative Commons license with the intent that you take it and make it your own.

Games

Food Force: A video game aiding world hunger
Students analyze current global social problems and their relationship to world hunger and economics. The goal of this project is to give students the opportunity to play Food Force and reflect upon their experiences in a discussion forum. Students gain perspective of providing food to hunger stricken regions of the world by playing Food Force. Students empathize with UN organizers and their efforts to conduct food relief.

Other Resources

Supply and Demand
Describe the market relationships between buyers and sellers of a good or service. These tutorials describe the various concepts and aspects of supply and demand, as a basis for further discussions of deeper economic ideas.