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Courses

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
The Challenge of World Poverty	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-73-the-challenge-of-world-poverty-fall-2009/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. David Donaldson, Prof. Esther Duflo	Browser	Start anytime	English	Undergraduate
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
Labor Economics I	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-661-labor-economics-i-fall-2010/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Joshua Angrist, Christopher Walters (Teaching Assistant)	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
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
Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-03-microeconomic-theory-and-public-policy-fall-2010/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Steven Wood	Browser	Prof. David Autor	English	Undergraduate / 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
Public Finance and Public Policy	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-41-public-finance-and-public-policy-fall-2010/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Jonathan Gruber	Browser	Start anytime	English	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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Congdon, William J. Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2011. Policy and Choice: Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics. (Free Book). (http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/04/free-book-well-worth-your-time.html). Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Coyle, Diane. 2011. The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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.

Morgenson, Gretchen. 2011. Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon. Times Books.

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

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Economics Video Contest. February 8. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

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.

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. (Open Access). Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. BPEA is open access. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

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

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(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

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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.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. If You Have the Answers, Tell Me. May 7. (also, Macroeconomic Uncertainties - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/05/macroeconomic-uncertainties.html). New York, NY: The New York Times.

theodp. 2011. Google/Facebook: Do-Not-Track Threatens CA Economy. May 7. yro.slashdot.org

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.

California

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. Fun Fact of the Day: California Edition. May 12. 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.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. [A Behavioral Econ Business Plan http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/02/behavioral-econ-business-plan.html]. February 7. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Developing World and Risks of Markets

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. Are emerging and developed economies switching place? Alan Taylor ponders the question. June 8. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Economic Competition

Krugman, Paul. 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/opinion/24krugman.html The Competition Myth]. March 26. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Economics and the Future

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. It’s 2026, and the Debt Is Due. March 26. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. Our Negative Bequest to Our Children. May 12. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Economic Growth

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. [http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-grow-economy.html How to Grow the Economy Bruce Bartlett takes on Tim Pawlenty]. June 11. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Economic Optimism

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

Economic Theory

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Empiricists versus Theorists: Christy Romer on the monetary policy debate. February 27. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

Economists

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. A Poll of Economists: Who are economists' favorite economists?. May 15. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

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

Diamond, Peter. 2011. When a Nobel Prize Isn’t Enough. June 5. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Kevin Warsh: An interview with the departing Fed governor. June 3. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Forests and Economics

Financial Crises

Chan, Sewell. 2011. Financial Meltdown Was ‘Avoidable,’ Inquiry Concludes. January 25. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Free Trade

Reinhardt, Uwe E. How Convincing Is the Case for Free Trade?. February 18. New York, NY: economix.blogs.nytimes.com.

Grading and Economics

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. Partisan Grading. May 20. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

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.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. The Mistake of 1937: Gauti Eggertsson of the NY Fed examines an historic parallel to our current macro situation. June 3. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

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, N. Gregory. 2011. Seriously, Some Consensus About Health Care. June 18. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. What would repeal of Obamacare do to the budget deficit?. 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.

Households

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Household Expectations. May 31. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Inequality and Redistribution

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Increasing Inequality around the World. May 4. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Internet and Economics

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Google Plays the Yield Curve. May 17. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

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.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. February 11. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Striking Fact of the Day - about Total Employment Level. March 09. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

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.

Freeman, Richard, with Eve Gerber (interviewer). 2011. Richard B. Freeman on Labour Unions: Harvard professor discusses the history and theory of unions – and explains why Wisconsin governor Scott Walker should heed the example of Australia’s ex-PM, John Howard. March 6. thebrowser.com

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Incentivizing Customers to Monitor Workers. February 9. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Manufacturing

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. The State of U.S. Manufacturing. February 6. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Money

Hamilton, James. 2011. How the Fed prints money without any ink: If the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program is printing money, why is the growth of new currency in circulation below average?. February 18. finance.fortune.cnn.com

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

Philanthropy

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.

Prices

Gopinath, Gita. 2011. Chasing prices: Economist Gopinath uses both theory and data to learn truths. February 22. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Gazette.

Mankiw, Greg C. 2011. I agree with Paul Krugman. May 7. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Productivity

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

Recessions

Mankiw, Greg C. 2011. Lucas on the Great Recession. June 2. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Rent Control

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. The Lucky Break of Rent Control. February 5. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

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.

Mandel, Marvin. 2011. Simple Solutions: to the deficit, Medicare, and the Social Security problems. February 26. New York, NY: New Politics.

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. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

U.S. Federal Budget

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. Alternative Fiscal Futures. April 22. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. President Obama's Budget. February 17. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. CEA Chairs on the Budget Deficit. (Unsustainable budget threatens nation - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51864.html - An important article signed by a bipartisan group of ten former chairmen and chairwomen of the Council of Economic Advisers. I have never before had such a large and distinguished group of coauthors). March 24. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Revkin, Andrew C. 2011. A Budget Map Reveals a Troubled Future. February 21. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Samuelson, Robert. 2011. A Missed Opportunity On the Budget. January 27. Real Clear Markets.

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. 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

Select Simulations, Applets and Visualizations

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. Moutain View, CA: googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com

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Select Societies, Associations, etc.

Select Study Guides

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

Select Syllabi

Select Tests, Exams, etc.

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. 2011. Principles of Macroeconomics (6th ed.). Cengage Learning.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. What's new in the new edition?. March 11. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

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/

Hazard, Merle. 2011. Feelin' Lousy - Financially Groov in Song. March 3. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. The Challenges Facing Monetary and Fiscal Policy. April 15. Cincinnati, OH: The University of Cincinnati.

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. 2011. NPR reports ... on a meeting of economists at MIT. January 28. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2011. Tax Justice - PBS Video. January 29. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. 2010. Taxing Times for Americans - Hear Me Squawk. (CNBC). Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Morgenson, Gretchen. 2011. How 'Reckless' Greed Contributed To Financial Crisis. May 24. National Public Radio.

NPR: Planet Money Podcast. 2010. NPR: Planet Money Podcast. National Public Radio.

Papola, Papola and Russ Roberts. 2010. "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem. Youtube.com.

Papola, Papola and Russ Roberts. 2011. Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two. April 28. (Greg Mankiw's blog) Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

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

Reich, Robert E. 2011. The Truth About the Economy. MoveOn.org.

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.

Healthcare

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

Internet and Economics

Hugh, Edward. 2011. How Life In The Internet Changes The Practice Of Macroeconomics. February 14. London, UK: London School of Economics.

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.

Symposiums

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. MIT Symposium of Macroeconomists. February 25. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

Tax Justice

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. Tax Justice. January 29. Cambridge, MA: PBS.

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Austrian Economics' Wiki: http://austrianeconomics.wikia.com

Select World University and School Wiki Pages

Business Management: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Management

Cooperatives: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cooperatives

Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

Fundraising: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Fundraising

Small Business: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Small_Business

Social Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science

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

WUaS Job Hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

WUaS Navigation

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Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)

Join the World University and School Google Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School.

Careers

Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

WUaS Job hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

Counseling

Counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counseling

Digital To Do

Android

Broadcast to radio frequency

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

Print

Recommend

Send to phone

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit

In Google Earth

Google Earth.

In Virtual World

Second Life, or other virtual world or space, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for classes? Check out Harvard's virtual island in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 and teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Travel to this virtual island to learn building in Second Life:

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Learning Networking

Teach and Learn using free Social Bookmarking software to identify what courses, etc. you find edifying.

Academia.edu's World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/

Delicious.com's World University and School - http://www.delicious.com/WorldUniversityandSchool

Digg.com's World University and School - http://digg.com/worlduniversityandschool

Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 (This group may be archived).

Google Buzz's World University and School - https://profiles.google.com/WorldUniversityAndSchool

Google Groups's World University and School - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School

Like

Redditt.com's World University and School - http://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/

Tribe.net's World University and School - http://tribes.tribe.net/worlduniversityandschool

Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

World University & School subject group

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Tutoring

TV-Live Broadcasting

Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Google Video Conferencing - in Gmail

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Wiki Software for Courses

Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

Home: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

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 NPR: Planet Money Podcast. 2010. [http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=94411890 NPR: Planet Money Podcast]. National Public Radio.
 Papola, Papola and Russ Roberts. 2010. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem]. Youtube.com.
 Papola, Papola and Russ Roberts. 2011. [http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/04/keynes-vs-hayek-round-two.html Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two]. April 28. (Greg Mankiw's blog) Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com
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 Perry, Mark. 2010. [http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/05/follow-money.html Follow the Money: Human Mobility and Effective Communities]. gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/05/follow-money.html
 Reich, Robert E. 2011. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE The Truth About the Economy]. MoveOn.org.
 Schumacher, E.F. 1977 -ish. [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=e.%20schumacher E.F. Schumacher on Economics as if People Mattered, Buddhist Economics, etc.]. archive.org/search.php?query=e.%20schumacher
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 WUaS Job Hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting