Cowles Library: Open Educational Resources (OER) @ Drake: Economics

Economics Open Textbooks

The Economy: Economics for a Changing World
The Economy is a course in economics. Throughout, we start with a question or a problem about the economy--why the advent of capitalism is associated with a sharp increase in average living standards, for example--and then teach the tools of economics that contribute to an answer.
For each question, the material is in the same sequence. We begin with a historical or current problem, even if it is a complex one, and then we use models to illuminate it.
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Known adoptions:
Iowa State University
OpenStax: Principles of Microeconomics 2e
The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters (SEE BELOW)
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Known adoptions:
University of Iowa (2 sections)
Iowa State University
University of Northern Iowa
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University Chicago
University of Hawaii Microeconomics 2019
A heavily revised version of OpenStax Principles of Microeconomics 2nd Edition.(PressBook)
OpenStax: Principles of Macroeconomics 2e
The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters
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Known adoptions:
Iowa State University
Loyola University New Orleans
Providence College
Loyola University Chicago
University of Northern Iowa
OpenStax Principles of Economics 2e
The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.
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Known adoptions:
University of St. Thomas - St. Paul
Loyola Marymount University
Valparaiso University
Microeconomics: Markets, Methods, and Models
Microeconomics: Markets, Methods, and Models by D.Curtis and I. Irvine provides concise yet complete coverage of introductory microeconomics theory, application and policy. The textbook begins with an explanation and development of the standard tools of analysis in the discipline and carries on to investigate the meaning of ‘well-being’ in the context of an efficient use of the economy’s resources.
Macroeconomics: Theory, Markets, and Policy
The textbook observes short-run macroeconomic performance, analysis, and policy motivated by the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s, the financial crisis and recession of 2008-2009, and the prolonged recovery in most industrial countries. A traditional Aggregate Demand and Supply (AD-AS) model is introduced, and a basic modern AD-AS model is developed. Numerical examples, diagrams, and basic algebra are used in combination to illustrate and explain economic relationships.
Principles of Macroeconomics: Lyryx
This text presents a complete and concise examination of introductory macroeconomics theory and policy suitable for a first introductory course. Examples are domestic and international in their subject matter and are of the modern era -- financial markets, monetary and fiscal policies aimed at inflation and debt control, globalization and the importance of trade flows in economic structure, and concerns about slow growth and the risk of deflation, are included.
Principles of Political Economy
The purpose of this text is to teach students about alternative schools of economic thought but also to deepen their understanding of the dominant, neoclassical approach to economics. In this sense, it draws a great deal of inspiration from Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick’s Contending Economic Theories. Following Wolff and Resnick, an even broader objective is to teach students that economics is a discourse and that no single voice can rightfully claim to have a monopoly on the truth about economics.(PressBook)
Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets
The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets is written for applied intermediate microeconomics courses. The book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, and natural resource sectors.

Adapted from: "Open Educational Resources (OER): Economics" by Abbey Elder, Iowa State University.

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