Economics: Open Educational Resources

"Open Educational Resources" by Ron Mader is licensed under CC BY 2.0

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. ~ William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

For a more comprehensive overview on OER, see:

• Open Educational Resources - a guide designed to assist faculty in the exploration, identification, selection and adoption of Open Educational Resources.

"The São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa)" by Rafael Matsunaga is licensed under CC BY 2.0

This is a sample of several OER Economics textbooks or course materials available. Please click on links for more information.  Additional OER in your subject may be found by searching the resources listed on the ACC Libraries primary Open Educational Resources Guide.

• Principles of Economics, Principles of Macroeconomics, and Principles of Microeconomics by Steven A. Greenlaw (University of Mary Washington) and Timothy Taylor (Macalester College)
• Money and Banking by Robert Wright (NYU)
• Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy by Guillermo Jimenez and Elizabeth Pulos
• Lumen courses in Macroeconomics and Microeconomics
• OER Commons economics lessons and projects for Professors
• BC Campus Open Textbooks about economics