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Add free, open Computer Music subjects	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Degree / Non-degree	Instructor's Name	Location	Other Info	Language	Tags
Advanced Macroeconomics I	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-461-advanced-macroeconomics-i-fall-2009/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Guido Lorenzoni, Prof. Veronica Guerrieri	Browser	Start anytime	English	graduate
Advanced Macroeconomics II	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-462-advanced-macroeconomics-ii-spring-2004/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. George-Marios Angeletos, Prof. Gilles Saint-Paul	Browser	Start anytime	English	graduate
Financial Markets	http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-markets/content/sessions.html	Yale University	non-degree	Prof. Robert Schiller	Browser	Theory of finance and its relation to the history, strengths and imperfections of such institutions as banking, insurance, securities, futures, and other derivatives markets, and the future of these institutions	English
Game Theory	http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/game-theory/contents/sessions.html	Yale University	non-degree	Prof. Ben Polak	Browser	Introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied.	English
Industrial Organization and Public Policy	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-20-industrial-organization-and-public-policy-spring-2003/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Nancy Rose	Browser	Start anytime	English	undergraduate
Macroeconomic Analysis	http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978376#17255	UC Berkeley	non-degree	Prof. Steven Wood	Browser	Factors which determine national income, employment, and price levels, vis-a-vis effects of monetary and fiscal policy.	English
Microeconomic Analysis	http://webcast.berkeley.edu/rss/course-archive.php?seriesid=1906978301	UC Berkeley	non-degree	Prof. Gordon Rausser	Browser	Resource allocation and price determination	English
Networks	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-15j-networks-fall-2009/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Daron Acemoglu, Prof. Asu Ozdaglar	Browser	Start anytime	English	undergraduate, economics
Principles of Macroeconomics	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-02-principles-of-macroeconomics-fall-2009/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Veronica Guerrieri	Browser	Start anytime	English	undergraduate
Principles of Macroeconomics	http://mediasite2.towson.edu/mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=7953d8f1-47c0-46df-a87f-2ca7fe6c0a78 -	Towson	non-degree	Prof. Theodore Kariotis - http://pages.towson.edu/tkarioti/	Browser	Start anytime	English	Economics, Macroeconomics, undergraduate
Principles of Microeconomics	http://mediasite2.towson.edu/mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=23dc6e6e-5301-42ff-ac25-56d1a66279c9	Towson	non-degree	Prof. Theodore Kariotis - http://pages.towson.edu/tkarioti/	Browser	Start anytime	English	Economics, Microeconomics, undergraduate
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Lissack, Michael. 2010. Fix Housing -- Fix the Economy. Naples, FL: fixhousing.blogspot.com

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. Greg Mankiw's Blog: Random Observations for Students of Economics. ("Professor of economics at Harvard University, where I teach introductory economics (ec 10) among other courses."). (gregmankiw.blogspot.com). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

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Ip, Greg. 2010. The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in The Real World. New York, NY: Wiley.

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Economic Games. 2010. Economic Games. Queensland, Australia: Griffith University and Australian Learning and Teaching Counsel.

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Federal Reserve

Bernanke, Chairman Ben S. 2010. Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis. September 2. (Before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Washington, D.C.). Washington, DC: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony

Freshman Economics

Harvard Professor of Economic's 2009 Freshman Seminar:

The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner

Spin-Free Economics, by Nariman Behravesh

Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun

Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman

Animal Spirits, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan

Economic Gangsters, by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel

The Price of Everything, by Russell Roberts

Superfreakonomics, by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

Greg Mankiw's 2009 Harvard Ec 10 course - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/08/impossible-task.html

Harvard Professor of Economic's 2010 Freshman Seminar: Here are the books we are reading this year (in this order):

The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbronr Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets, by John McMillan

Thinking Strategically, by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff

Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun

Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

How the Economy Works, by Roger E.A. Farmer

The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman

The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek

The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan

The Big Questions, by Steven Landsburg

Greg Mankiw's 2010 Harvard Ec 10 course - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/09/this-years-freshman-seminar.html

The Great Depression

Barro, Robert. 2009. Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes. (Related paper here: http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/15369.html). National Science Foundation.

Bernanke, Ben S. 2004. Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Cole, Harold and Lee Ohanian. 2003. The Great Depression in the United States from a Neoclassical Perspective. (Also here: http://www.economics.hawaii.edu/research/seminars/02-03/02-21.pdf). (Research Department Staff Report XXX.). Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Friedman Milton and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. 1971. Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Ramey, Valerie. 2009. Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It’s All in the Timing. (http://econ.ucsd.edu/~vramey/research/IdentifyingGovt.pdf). University of California, San Diego.

(Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s Five Great Books on the Depression - http://five-books.com/interviews/robert-barro)

Poverty

Eckholm, Erik. 2010. Recession Raises Poverty Rate to a 15-Year High. September 16. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Productivity

Rogoff, Kenneth. 2010. An Age of Diminished Expectations?. August 3. New York, NY: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rogoff71/English

Small Business

Hassett, Kevin and Alan Viard. 2010. Counting Small Businesses. September 3. (see also: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959704575454061524326290.html). Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/09/counting-small-businesses.htm.

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. A Small Step in the Right Direction. September 07. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Unemployment

Barro, Robert. 2010. The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment: My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn't been extended to 99 weeks. August 30. New York, NY: Wall Street Journal.

Tyson, Laura. 2010. Why We Need a Second Stimulus. New York, NY: The New York Times.

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Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Study Guide for Mankiw's Principles of Economics (5th ed.). South-Western College Pub.

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Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Principles of Macroeconomics (5th ed.). South-Western College Pub.

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Benkler, Yochai. 2009. After Selfishness - Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0 at Half Time. (July 24). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Cassidy, John, and James Surowiecki;The Political Scene: John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on the politics behind Obama’s new economic proposals. (The Political Scene, A weekly podcast about Washington). September 13. New York, NY: The New Yorker.

Hazard, Merle. 2010. Double Dippin' (music video). http://www.merlehazard.com/

Perry, Mark. 2010. Follow the Money: Human Mobility and Effective Communities. gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/05/follow-money.html

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