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This course teaches how to assess the macroeconomic environment in which a business operates. We start by examining how various components of macroeconomy contribute to the...

This MOOC gives an overview of the monetary system for modern times, building on the intellectual traditions of British central banking and American institutionalism.

The course is founded upon the elemental idea that the role of the state is to maximize the wellbeing - or simply the happiness - of its residents. It touches upon the essence...

This course will explore a set of market imperfections to understand why they fail and to explore possible remedies including as antitrust policy, regulation, government...

This course introduces simple and multiple regression, followed by topics of special interest to deal with model specification, endogenous variables, binary choice data, and...

This online course explores China’s economic development and the current challenges facing the Chinese economy.

This course teaches how macroeconomic conditions play important roles in business decisions and performance. How aggregate income, unemployment, and inflation rates influence...

This course is an introduction to the microeconomic theory of markets: why we have them, how they work, what they accomplish.

This course offers an introduction to the functions of individual decision-makers—both consumers and producers—within the larger economic system. Emphasis is on the nature and...

This course will employ a non-technical approach to analyze how governments use policy to influence a country's economy.

This online course explores various economic aspects of globalization. It includes topics such as exchange rates, free trade and protectionism, the balance of payments between...

This online course gives an introduction to microeconomics. It is based on an Econ 100 class at Rice University.

This course addresses how firms can most effectively convert inputs into final output and then covers determining the best price-output combination for a firm and how this...

This course begins by further exploring firm behavior in imperfectly competitive market settings: how firms with monopoly power can increase profits through price...

This opening module of the Power of Markets course covers the basic assumptions about market participants made by economists, the concept of opportunity cost, and the key...

This course will derive equilibrium outcomes across a variety of market structures and will begin by understanding equilibrium under a market structure called Perfect...

This online course gives an introduction to econometric models and methods as well as their applications.

This course former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick surveys the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent...

This course teaches how market-based allocation systems use prices as rationing devices, encouraging or discouraging consumption and production to reach equilibrium.

This online course gives an introduction to central banks and monetary policy. It includes modules on interest rates, the Fed, monetary policy and inflation, and the development...