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Principles of Microeconomics (Marginal Revolution University)The easiest place to start, because each idea arrives as a short video and most lessons end with a quiz, so you find out at once whether you followed the argument. Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok build from supply and demand through the topics that fill policy coverage: taxes and subsidies, price…0 - 2
Principles of Microeconomics (MIT 14.01, Fall 2023)Jonathan Gruber's MIT course is the full-semester version of the same ground, and the one to choose if you want to see the models worked through rather than summarized. Lecture videos come with problem sets and exams, and the exams are the honest test: they show whether you can move a curve and…0 - 3
Principles of Macroeconomics (Marginal Revolution University)Opening with why some countries grow rich while others stay poor, this course takes growth before business cycles, an order that changes how you hear a monthly jobs report. It then covers GDP, savings and banking, unemployment, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy in the same short-video…0 - 4
Principles of Macroeconomics (MIT 14.02, Spring 2023)Ricardo Caballero's 2023 MIT course starts from the questions recent headlines raised: the pandemic economy of 2020 and 2021, the 2008 to 2009 financial crisis, and why inflation rose higher than at any time in three decades. Lecture videos, problem sets and exams are all included.
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Macroeconomics (Khan Academy)A gentle route in, and the easiest course here to dip into one topic at a time. Khan Academy's free Macroeconomics course walks through GDP and how national income is measured, inflation and the cost of living, aggregate demand and supply, the monetary system, and the Keynesian cross and IS-LM…0 - 6
Mastering Econometrics (Marginal Revolution University)If you only add one course after the principles, make it this one. Joshua Angrist, who shared the 2021 economics Nobel for work on cause and effect, teaches the five methods economists use to tell whether a policy did anything: random assignment, regression, instrumental variables, regression…0 - 7
Game Theory (Yale ECON 159, Ben Polak)Ben Polak's Yale lectures, recorded in fall 2007, are the best free account of strategic thinking, and they are genuinely entertaining because students play the games in class before the theory explains what they did. The 24 lectures cover dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium,…0 - 8
The Challenge of World Poverty (MIT 14.73, Spring 2011)Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who later shared the 2019 economics Nobel, teach development economics as a set of open questions: does growth help the poor, is microfinance overrated, does foreign aid help or hinder, and should development be left to markets or to NGOs. The 2011 lectures are on…0 - 9
Financial Markets (Yale ECON 252, 2011, Robert Shiller)This is a course about how the financial system works, not how to beat it. Robert Shiller's 2011 Yale lectures treat finance as a set of institutions for sharing risk, then test them against what went wrong: there are lectures on financial crises, leverage cycles, banks, monetary policy, and…0 - 10
Great Economists: Classical Economics and Its Forerunners (Marginal Revolution University)Many current policy arguments are old ones in new clothes, and this course shows where they started. Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok cover economic thought up to the 1870s, from forerunners such as Cantillon, Quesnay and Hume, through a video for each chapter of The Wealth of Nations, to Malthus,…0