Open Educational Resources (OERs): Economics
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Economics Open Educational Resources
This page contains suggested textbooks and materials that are openly licensed. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but to highlight relevant materials for faculty to consider adding to their courses.
More information about evaluating OER, including assessment rubrics, can be found on the Use OER tab.
Related Library Subject Guides
The following general subject guides contain library resources freely available to PSU students:
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Textbooks
- Principles of EconomicsPrinciples of Economics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory economics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.
- Principles of MicroeconomicsPrinciples of Microeconomics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory microeconomics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.
- Principles of MacroeconomicsPrinciples of Macroeconomics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory economics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.
Additional Material
- Economics from Khan AcademyPractice exercises and instructional videos for macroeconomics, microeconomics, and finance.
- Economics Assignment Library from LumenThe Lumen economics assignment library is a community site intended to house and share openly licensed assignments for micro and macroeconomics courses.
- Economics from Open Course LibraryThe Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts.
- Economics from MITWeb-based publication of virtually all MIT course content in Economics
- Economics from SUNYTextbooks and additional course material from the State University of New York
- Economics from Saylor AcademyCourse materials for beginning and intermediate micro and macro economics
- Economics from MerlotLearning materials and exercises contributed by the Merlot community.