Research Guides: Open Educational Resources: Economics OER

Major Repositories

LardBucket 2012

Creative Commons-licensed copies of all the books which were available online from a specific publisher at the end of 2012.

Free and open learning materials for job-driven workforce development

Repository for the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Open Textbooks

Here are some examples of the many OER textbooks available for economics. Search for others in the repositories linked on the left, or contact a librarian to help you find what you want.

OpenStax

OpenStax textbooks are free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and high-quality. Most include test banks, slides, and other supplemental materials for faculty.

A second edition of their Principles of Microeconomics is in development and will be available soon.

U.S. Government Websites

The CORE Project

CORE
CORE is a global collaborative project in economics. It's empirically motivated and illustrated: students learn models motivated by facts from history, experiments and data. This full curriculum includes textbook, quizzes, and lecture slides.

Videos

60-Second Adventures in Economics
A series of 6 quick sketch-style videos illustrating different economics principles.
Marginal Revolution University
This is an extensive library of educational economics videos, created by George Mason University economics professors Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok.

Economic Policy Simulator

Economic Policy Simulator
Beginning with the details of an unnamed country, this interactive exercise lets students combine various economic policies to analyse their future impact (in the following two years) on the main macroeconomic indicators.

Open Educational Resources: Economics OER