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This online course explores the processes by which local governments, businesses, and civil society groups manage local resources and infrastructure to create jobs and income.

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

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 (MOOC) explores economics from a pluralist perspective.

This online course gives an introduction to "Earth Economics", where Earth's data is used to develop the best global policy on a truly global level. This includes aspects like...

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 online course gives an introduction to macroeconomics. It is based on an economics class at Rice University.

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 central banks and monetary policy. It includes modules on interest rates, the Fed, monetary policy and inflation, and the development...

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

This online course gives an introduction to basic mathematical concepts like propositional and predicate logic, set theory, the number system, and proof techniques. The course...

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

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

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