Open Educational Resources and Economics

Please note, while the resources below have been deemed to be sufficient for teaching courses aligned to the C-ID ECON 201 descriptor, they have not been compared against the Principles of Microeconomics ECON C2001 CCN Template. Please review the materials thoroughly to ensure they meet the needs of your course.

• Microeconomics 1e (Medeiros, 2024) – LibreTexts (CC-BY-NC-SA)

  

• Principles of Microeconomics 3e (Greenlaw and Shapiro, 2022) (OpenStax) (CC BY 2.0)

  Principles of Microeconomics (OpenStax) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

  

• The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics (Bowles et al., 2023) – CORE Econ (CC BY-NC-ND)

  License is CC BY‑NC‑ND but text is listed as open access.

  

• Allocation, Distribution, and Policy: Notes, Problems, and Solutions in Microeconomics (Bowles and Chen, 2025) (CC BY-NC)

  This text is for a more advance principles course.

Please note, while the resources below have been deemed to be sufficient for teaching courses aligned to the C-ID ECON 202 descriptor, they have not been compared against the Principles of Macroeconomics ECON C2002 CCN Template. Please review the materials thoroughly to ensure they meet the needs of your course.

• Macroeconomics 1e (Medeiros, 2025) – LibreTexts (CC-BY-NC-SA)

  

• Principles of Macroeconomics 3e (Greenlaw and Shapiro, 2022) (OpenStax) (CC BY 2.0)

  Principles of Macroeconomics (OpenStax) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)

  

• The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics (Bowles et al., 2025) – CORE Econ (CC BY-NC-ND)

  Principles of Macroeconomics text with an alternative approach.

  

• Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and Inequality (Carlin and Soskice, 2024) (CC BY-NC)

  Text for more advanced principles of macro

  

• Lumen Learning (Macro) and Lumen Learning (Micro)
  • Lumen OER courses and materials aim for an active learning experience. They include text, images, videos, assessments, directed feedback, practice questions, simulations, and other interactives.Waymaker Courseware: User-friendly Waymaker learning tools improve success for at-risk students with personalized study plans, automated study tips and nudges, and early alerts to identify and help struggling students.Outcome-aligned OER: Designed to replace expensive textbooks, this course curates the best available open educational resources (OER) aligned with learning outcomes. Teach it as-is or customize to fit your needs.LMS Integration: This course is delivered with seamless LMS integration and automatic grade return for Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, and Moodle.
  • Accessibility: Lumen is 100% committed to providing learning materials that are accessible to all learners. Lumen course materials are mobile-friendly.
• Khan Academy
  • Microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics
• Crash Course Economics (instructional videos for micro and macro)
  • Crash Course videos are also integrated into OpenStax texts
• Marginal Revolution University (MRU) – (courses, series, videos, resources)
  • Teaching resources (Econinbox, interactive graphing practice, unit plans), Series (Everyday economics, women in economics, Nobel conversations, Econ Duels Cowan/Tabarrok debates, etc.)Interesting videos
  • Courses (micro and macro)

• Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics
  • This site introduces economists to innovative teaching strategies developed both within and beyond the discipline of economics. It provides instructors with the tools to begin integrating and assessing these teaching strategies in their own classrooms and promotes the sharing of teaching innovations among instructors. The portal includes 16 teaching pedagogies along with plug-in experiments, activities, and assignments geared toward principles of micro- and macro-economics. There is a section devoted to Economics at Community Colleges
• Econ Ed from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank
• Federal Reserve Education
• Freakonomics Radio Network
  • Freakonomics Radio Podcasts. Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior. 
  • Economics of Everyday Things Podcast (2023). Who decides which snacks are in your office’s vending machine? How much is a suburban elm tree worth, and to whom?  How did Girl Scout Cookies become a billion-dollar business? In bite-sized episodes, journalist Zachary Crockett looks at quotidian things and finds amazing stories.
• NPR Planet Money Podcasts
  • At Planet Money, we explore the forces that shape our lives and bring you along for the ride. Don’t just understand the economy – understand the world.
  • NPR Planet Money Podcast Worksheet & Discussion Assignments

• Waymaker (see Lumen Learning below)
• Knewton (Alta)
• PanOpen
• Perusall

• Module 1: Income and Wealth Inequality
• Module 2:  Behavioral Economics
• Module 3:  Unemployment (Openstax Edited with Local Data)
• Module 4:  History of Economic Thought
• Module 5:  Game Theory
• Module 6:  Climate Change

• OER Commons
• Open Text Library (University of Minnesota)
• Merlot
• Open Ed British Columbia