Materials from a ten-lecture course in causal inference in social science delivered in the Autumn of 2021. It assumes some knowledge of the R language.
More than sixty lectures, available as Youtube videos or audio on podcast platforms, from six courses given by Harvey on the political economy of Karl Marx. Published from 2007 to 2022.
A series of long, structured explanatory essays on topical aspects of economics, including student questions and exercises as well as references to the CORE textbooks. Recent topics include public debt, inequality, and the reforms that have taken place since the global financial crisis.
Materials from a course in behavioural economics taught in 2020. "This course covers recent advances in behavioral economics by reviewing some of the assumptions made in mainstream economic models, and by discussing how human behavior systematically departs from these assumptions. Applications will cover a wide range of fields, including labor and public economics, industrial organization, health economics, finance, and development economics." Includes problem sets and exams with solutions, lecture videos, lecture slides, and detailed reading list.
"A pre-sessional resource to refresh mathematical skills and techniques in preparation for an undergraduate degree in economics." Has more than eighty videos with captions, plus slides and interactive quizzes to cover seventeen topics from arithmetic and basic algebra to matrices, at each stage showing how these techniques are relevant to economics. Created with funding from the Royal Economic Society.
Site that aims to teach economics through real-time trading games that run on smartphones, tablet devices, or computers. A set of pre-designed activities are available taht can eb run within 30 minutes, incorporating slides and a debrief. Free for a single class of no more than 30 players; paid per student per year for larger or multiple classes. Lecturers share a code with their students, who enter it into the site.
Interactive visualisation of income inequality and wealth inequality data for the UK. As the reader steps through, the site asks them to choose a desirable level of income inequality between the top 5 and bottom 5 percent, then displays the real level of inequality and how it evolved from the 1960s to 2011.
A library of interactive digital activities based on case studies to illustrate situations including negotiation, Prisoners' Dilemmas, and optimisation. Each activity is labelled with an intended duration from 10 to 45 minutes and the software provides an automated debrief. This is a commercial site that charges per learner per activity.
Subscription site with more than 900 quiz questions on introductory econometrics, especially Stata software. The questions come with links and references for further study. A campus licence allows instructors to create and administer customised quizzes, searching by keyword or specifying questions by textbook and chapter. For free, you can try out a quiz of ten randomly-selected questions.
The first edition of this text was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. The second edition, last updated 2021, is available as a free 765-page PDF download. To accompany the text, the site has a ZIP file of 116 Excel workbooks.
This literature review on Global Value Chains is available as a freely downloadable PDF, with chapters 1 ("Supply Chain Perspectives") and 2 ("Supply Chain Issues") individually downloadable. The early chapters define key terms and introduce how global supply chains are discussed in economic literature and in business literature.
Freely downloadable PDF version of a printed textbook. "The book focuses on the concepts of model and equilibrium. It states models and results precisely, and provides proofs for all results. It uses only elementary mathematics (with almost no calculus), although many of the proofs involve sustained logical arguments. It includes about 150 exercises."
Available in two editions: one uses he/him pronouns throughout; the other uses she/her pronouns.
