Online Textbooks in Principles (General)
This online textbook is available freely for use by lecturers of introductory economics courses. The first part teaches the basics of economics, while subsequent chapters are of a 'storytelling' nature, applying the concepts to subjects aimed at students' own lives and areas of interest, such as love and marriage, higher education, and crime. The site was taken down in early 2017: this link goes to the Web Archive copy.
An open online textbook, divided into 38 chapters, drawn from various open educational sources including MIT Open CourseWare and Wikipedia, and curated by "subject matter experts, like professors, PhDs and Master’s students." One section deals with controversies in economics (with a US focus), such as "should the Government maintain a balanced budget?" Development of the textbook stopped in 2017 and the book was archived in this version.
This textbook is both freely available and extensively peer-reviewed. It aims to cover "the scope and sequence for a two-semester principles of economics course." It claims "a balanced approach to micro and macro economics, to both Keynesian and classical views, and to the theory and application of economics concepts." Officially published in March 2014, it was updated in 2017 to reflect current events. Its US origin is reflected in the choice of examples. It can be freely downloaded or viewed in a variety of formats, and an interactive version is available through the Apple iBookstore. A test bank, set of PowerPoint slides, and solutions booklet are available to lecturers on request.
A 31-chapter principles textbook that focuses on real-world examples and introduces each theory point by first discussing an application. It can be downloaded& as a single PDF file or viewed online. It was published in 2012 by the Saylor Foundation, an educational charity.
This set of downloadable textbooks is aimed at UK economics students. They include introductory topics such as the basics of international economics, the neo-classical growth model, econometrics and micro/macro analysis. They range in size from about 20 pages to 150 pages. Users are required to fill in brief personal details before they can download the PDF files of the full text of the books. The free versions have embedded adverts. Ad-free versions are available with a paid subscription.
This on-line introductory text by Roger Schenk includes both micro- and macro- sections, with about a dozen chapters in each. The text has its own glossary and Who's Who and is available as a CD-ROM. A separate index holds text that has been removed from the main content of the book for flow or because it was too technical.
This is Kling's (formerly of the Federal Reserve) ongoing attempt at an online introductory textbook, made up of about fifty short documents arranged in five chapters - Growth Theory, Saving, Finance, and Social Security, Markets (Microeconomics), Macroeconomics, Information Economics. Each chapter can be printed as a single document.
