"12 data-based projects with step-by-step instructions for Excel, Google Sheets, R, and Python", intended to complement the other CORE textbooks or to be used on its own to develop data skills. The book is fully available online, and downloadable in PDF and Epub formats. The book includes a glossary, educator notes, and a list of walk-throughs.
Textbook assuming no prior knowledge of economics or statistics, aimed at students who are not taking a major course in economics or for anyone who wants to inform their views on economic topics. The book is fully online and can also be downloaded in PDF or Epub formats. Background material includes a glossary, links to recommended videos, and data-based exercises. Chapters are "Capitalism and democracy: Affluence, inequality, and the environment", "Social interactions and economic outcomes", "Public policy for fairness and efficiency", "Work, wellbeing, and scarcity", "Institutions, power, and inequality", "The firm: Employees, managers, and owners", "Firms and markets for goods and services", "The labour market and the product market: Unemployment and inequality", "The credit market: Borrowers, lenders, and the rate of interest", "Banks, money, housing, and financial assets", "Market successes and failures", and "Governments and markets in a democratic society".
Readings, lecture slides, and problem sets from a course delivered in 2024 using the R language. "This course introduces practical tools and econometric techniques used to conduct empirical analysis on topics like equality of opportunity, education, racial disparities, and more. These skills include data acquisition, project management, version control, data visualization, efficient programming, and tools for big data analysis."
Videos and downloadable PDF slides on eleven topics in descriptive statistics. The course uses pandas, the Python Data Analysis Library. Material on the same site introduces Python and pandas.
Online version of a textbook on causal inference that was published in print by Yale University Press. The book "introduces students and practitioners to the methods necessary to arrive at meaningful answers to the questions of causation, using a range of modeling techniques and coding instructions for both the R and the Stata programming languages." Code for all exercises is also available in Python.
Online textbook which uses interactive visualisations and quizzes. It is intended not as a replacement for existing textbooks, but as a set of complementary resources that give a different way to explore the topic. The modules are on "Measuring Inequality", "Specialization and Trade", "Technology and Costs", "Intertemporal Choice", "Measuring Output, Inflation, and Growth", "Aggregate Production and Fiscal Policy", and "Balance Sheets and Trading".
Overview of climate-related topics including risks, predictions, and solutions. The text, image, and podcast audio content are drawn from a variety of sources. The topics of risk and decision-making under uncertainty are explained from basics using climate examples. All materials are available under a free licence.
Videos, lecture slides, and problem sets (with solutions) from a Fall 2022 "PhD-level course in industrial organization, introducing students to the basic building blocks of the field and exposing them to a variety of techniques".
Video lectures and problem sets (with solutions) from a course given in Spring 2023. The course is based on the Blanchard "Macroeconomics" textbook.
121-page PDF created for an introductory course at Oxford. The chapters are "The Long Run and the Classical Model", "The AD Curve and the IS-LM Model", "The AS Curve and the Labour Market", "The Open Economy", and "Macroeconomic Policy Issues".
PDF notes and questions from an introductory course taught in 2007. Thirteen files have a total of ninety pages of text and diagrams.
In-browser budget game that puts the player in the position of the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, overseeing £1.2 trillion of annual spending. It presents a series of budget decisions, and uses illustrations and fictional characters to give feedback on the consequences. It highlights the sections of society who might object to each decision.
"Tax and benefit policy costings are Resolution Foundation calculations based on a range of sources, including use of the Institute for Public Policy Research tax-benefit model."
