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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
Behavioral Economics and Finance	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-127-behavioral-economics-and-finance-spring-2004/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Xavier Gabaix	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
Community-Owned Enterprise and Civic Participation	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-954-community-owned-enterprise-and-civic-participation-spring-2005/index.htm	MIT	non-degree	Prof. J. Phillip Thompson	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
Economics' Courses	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/	MIT	non-degree		Browser	Start anytime	English	undergraduate, 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://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-126-game-theory-spring-2010/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Mihai Manea, Prof. Muhamet Yildiz	Browser	This course is a rigorous investigation of the evolutionary and epistemic foundations of solution concepts, such as rationalizability and Nash equilibrium	English	Graduate
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
Microeconomic Theory III	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-123-microeconomic-theory-iii-spring-2010/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Muhamet Yildiz	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
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
Course's Name	http://		non-degree		Browser	Start anytime	English

WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources

Ideas

Quiggin, John. 2010. Five Zombie Economic Ideas That Refuse to Die. October 15. Foreign Policy.

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Lissack, Michael. 2010. Fix Housing -- Fix the Economy. Naples, FL: fixhousing.blogspot.com

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. Grading Econ Textbooks on Climate Change. December 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

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.

Smith, Yves. 2010. Naked Capitalism: . nakedcapitalism.com

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Greco, Thomas H. 2009. The End of Money and the Future of Civilization. White River Jct., Vt: Chelsea Green Publishing.

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

Schiller, Robert. 2011. Robert Shiller on Human Traits Essential to Capitalism. (Yale economist Robert Shiller argues that rising inequality in the US was a major cause of the recent crisis, and little is being done to address it. He chooses books that give insight into human nature). The Browser.

Freshman Economics

Harvard Professor of Economics' 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 Economics' 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

Economics' Books for Young Children

Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen. 2010. Yana van der Meulen Rodgers on Economics Books for Young Children. The Browser.

Select Competitions

St. Louis Fed 2010. National Economic Education Video Competition for College Students. St Louis, MO: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.

Select Countries

Cochrane, John H. 2010. Geithner's Global Central Planning: The Chinese government's accumulation of U.S. debt represents a tragic investment decision, not a currency-manipulation effort. October 26. New York, NY: online.wsj.com/article

Select Economics Humor

Mankiw, Greg, and Harvard economics' Students. 2010. [The Colbert Effect http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/10/colbert-effect.html]. October 26. (and Harvard's Respectably French - http://respectablyfrench.com/rfv2/). Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/10/colbert-effect.html.

Select Games

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

Select Journals, Serials, etc.

McAfee, R. Preston. 2010. EDIFYING EDITING. (on editing articles in Economics' journals). Vol. 55, No. 1 (Spring 2010). American Economist.

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Select References

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. How to Break Bread With the Republicans. January 1. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Bioregionalism

Greco Jr., Thomas H. 2010. Proposal – A Bioregional Economic Development Program Based on Mutual Credit Clearing. beyondmoney.net.

Indigenous Peoples of Canada. 2010. Bioregional Economics. Chase, B.C.: Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty.

Blogosphere and Economics

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. Department of "Huh"? (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Blogosphere? Brad DeLong Edition). November 23. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

Capitalism

Harvey, David. 2010. The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism. Profile Books.

Consumers

Revkin, Andrew C. 2010. A Black Friday Push, From Twitter to Beijing. November 26. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Economic Optimism

Tierney, . 2010. Economic Optimism? Yes, I’ll Take That Bet. December 27. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Economists

Segal, David. 2010. The X Factor of Economics: People. October 16. New York, NY: The New York Times.

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

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)

Happiness

Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Steven Gorelick & John Page. 2011. The Economics of Happiness. (Documentary). theeconomicsofhappiness.org

Healthcare

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas, Joseph Antos and James C. Capretta. 2011. Health Care Repeal Won't Add to the Deficit. January 19. New York, NY: Wall Street Journal.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. [What would repeal of Obamacare do to the budget deficit? http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-would-repeal-of-obamacare-do-to.html]. January 19. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

Palfrey, Judith. 2010. The Ballot Box and Health. (With cost estimates). November 01. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Crimson.

Jobs

Greenstone, Michael and Adam Looney. 2010. The Long Road Back to Full Employment: How the Great Recession Compares to Previous U.S. Recessions. August 6. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

Leopold, Les. 2010. When Will We Face Up to the Enormity of the Jobs Crisis?. November 12. White River Jct.: VT: Chelsea Green.

Labor

Card, David. 1991. The Effect of Unions on the Level and Distribution of Wages: A Longitudinal Analysis. Number 287, July 1991, revised March 1995. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper.

Card, David. 1987. Supply and Demand in the Labor Market. Number 228, November. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper.

Card, David, (with Orley Ashenfelter). 1981. Using Longitudinal Data to Measure Minimum Wage Effects." September 1981. London, UK: Center for Labour Economics, London School of Economics Discussion Paper.

Money

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?. 2011. What does one TRILLION dollars look like?. pagetutor.com

Poverty

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

Mandell, Betty Reid. 2011. The Media, the Poor, and SSI. January 22. New York, NY: New Politics.

Wen, Patricia. 2011. The Other Welfare. January 22. Boston, MA: The Boston Globe.

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.

Social Security in the U.S.

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. The Simpson-Bowles Social Security Plan - Chuck Blahous explains it.. November 11. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. The Simpson-Bowles Social Security Plan Reform. November 29. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

Spreading Wealth Around

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2010. Presidential Address: Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber. (www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/) 36, (285–298). Eastern Economic Journal.

Taxes

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. The Blur Between Spending and Taxes. November 20. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. I Can Afford Higher Taxes. But They’ll Make Me Work Less. October 9. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. The Tax Deal. December 7. New York, NY: The New York Times.

U.S. Federal Budget

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.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. How much unemployment is structural?. January 2010. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

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

Virtual Economy

Castronova, Edward. 2010. An Exodus Recession?. November 10. terranova.blogs.com

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U.S. Federal Budget

Carter, Shan, Matthew Ericson, David Leonhardt, Bill Marsh and Kevin Quealy. 2010. Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Lyman, John. 2010. New in Public Data Explorer: Visualize the US Budget. December 1. googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com

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Select Study Guides

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

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Select Textbooks

Colander. 2009. Economics (8th ed.). McGraw-Hill.

Krugman and Wells. 2009. Economics. (2nd ed.). Worth.

Mankiw, N. Gregory, and Laurence Ball. 2011 (forthcoming. Macroeconomics and the Financial System. (Free Chapter 19). Worth Publishers.

Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Principles of Macroeconomics (5th ed.). Cengage Learning.

Select Video and Audio

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.

Ferguson, Charles. 2010. Inside Job Trailers & Video Clips (6 videos). ("A wake-up call of macroeconomic proportions"). Belgium.

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

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2010. Laura Tyson and Me on NPR- Obama's Economic Plan Face Gridlock in Congress. (NPR's All Things Considered). Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2010. Taxing Times for Americans - Hear Me Squawk. (CNBC). Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com. NPR: Planet Money Podcast. 2010. NPR: Planet Money Podcast. National Public Radio.

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

Schumacher, E.F. 1977 -ish. E.F. Schumacher on Economics as if People Mattered, Buddhist Economics, etc.. archive.org/search.php?query=e.%20schumacher

Economics' Humor

Bauman, Yoram. 2010. 2010 American Economic Association humor session. American Economic Association.

Mankiw, Greg, and Harvard economics' Students. 2010. The Colbert Effect. October 26. (and Harvard's Respectably French - http://respectablyfrench.com/rfv2/). Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/10/colbert-effect.html.

Jobs

Brancaccio, David. 2010. Fixing the Future: NOW visits US communities using innovative approaches to create jobs and build prosperity. (Local, sustainable jobs and cooperatives). PBS.

Healthcare

Goodman, Amy. 2011. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin Moves to Create Single-Payer Healthcare System. January 21. DemocracyNow.org

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Urban Studies and Planning: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Urban_Studies_and_Planning

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