Our World in Data is a project involving the University of Oxford and the charity Global Change Data Lab. This page is a large list of interactive visualisations, each combining maps, timelines, and tables. These cover a wide range of demographic, economic, political, health, and other data. These can usually be embedded in other websites, or exported as images or tables that can be freely reused with attribution.
The introductory first chapter from the textbook "Microeconomics in Words" is available free through this link. From the publisher's web site, "This book demystifies microeconomic analyses by showing how they depend on simplifying assumptions and ethical judgments that could be made differently. [...] To make the material more accessible and to provide context for the ideas, the book adopts a word-based rather than mathematical approach and uses many examples from literary classics." The book is freely available in digital form from libraries that subscribe to Oxford Scholarship Online.
58-page document with recommended readings, questions and summaries of key points from a course on the political economy of economic development. The educational aims of the course are given as "To understand what shapes economic and political outcomes, in low- and middle-income countries." and "to critically assess different explanations of country growth trajectories".
Interactive macro simulation of the UK economy in which the user can make dozens of alterations to taxes and public spending and see the effect on the government's deficit.
An index of nearly a thousand economic concepts, with each term linking through to 300-word extracts from academic textbooks that mention the topic. Access to the full text of the books requires a paid subscription.
Recorded videos from live online discussions, each lasting around half an hour, aiming "to increase understanding of the economy: what it is, and how it works, and all in Plain English". The first interviewees are Professor Graeme Roy, University of Glasgow; Professor Sir Dieter Helm, University of Oxford; and Dr Arun Advani, University of Warwick.
Interactive site to visualise the effects of wealth taxes in the UK. The reader can design their own wealth tax schedule, either for an annual or one-off tax, and see the resulting average tax rate plotted by absolute wealth or percentile wealth. Users can put in details of their own wealth, income, and expenditure, and see the results of the chosen tax schedule and see how much they would have to pay. The site calculates the income tax or VAT increase that would generate the same revenue as the proposed wealth tax.
Seven minute animated video introducing how wealth inequality and income inequality are affected by government policy. The TED-Ed site includes self-test questions and a short text with additional links.
Five minute animated video, presented on the TED-Ed site with some self-assessment questions and links for further information.
Four minute animated video explaining the concept of marginal value and the phenomenon of diminishing marginal utility. On the TED-Ed site the video is accompanied with self-test questions and relevant links.
Four-minute animated video about economic bubbles, provided on the TED-Ed site with self-test questions and relevant links.
Reading lists, lecture videos and exams/ problem sets from a course originally taught in 2020. The course "provides an introduction to consumer choice, the theory of the firm, and general equilibrium models, with an overview of the main results and tools used in studying these topics".
