The internet has thrown education wide open, with some of the most renowned universities across the world now offering free courses. The best part is that you can take these from the comfort of your own home, at your own speed and not incur the expense of attending university. Here are 65 free economics courses you can take online, right now!
65 Free Online Economics Courses
Advanced Political Economy – Free Online Video – Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics – Free Online Video – Pardis Sabeti, Harvard
American Capitalism: A History – Free iTunes Video – Louis Hyman & Edward Baptist, Cornell
American Economic History (Syllabus) – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
Austrian Economics: An Introduction – Free Online Audio – Murray N. Rothbard – New York Polytechnic University
Behavioral Finance – Free Online Video – Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Course Materials – Douglas W. Rae, Yale
Case Studies in Economic Development – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Edward Andrew Miguel, UC Berkeley
Crisis, Globalization and Economics – Free Online Video – Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
Development Economics – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Development Economics: Macroeconomics – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – Robert Townsend, MIT
Economic Analysis-Micro – Free iTunes Audio – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
Economic Geography of the Industrial World – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
Economic History of the Soviet Union – Free Online Video – Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U.
Economic Statistics and Econometrics – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Glenn Woroch, UC Berkeley
Economics of the Media – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Energy Decisions, Markets and Policies – Free iTunes Video – Course Info – Richard Schmalensee, MIT
Environmental Economics – Free iTunes Audio – David Zilberman, UC Berkeley
Finance Theory 1 – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – Andrew Lo, MIT
Financial Markets – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Course Materials – Robert Shiller, Yale
Financial Markets 2011 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – Robert Shiller, Yale
Financial Theory – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – John Geanakoplos, Yale
Game Theory – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Course Materials – Ben Polak, Yale
Game Theory in the Social Sciences – Free iTunes Video – Yves Zenou, UC Berkeley
Game Theory and Economics – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati
Global Poverty and Impact Evaluation – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley
Great Big Ideas – Free Online Video – Steven Pinker, Larry Summers, Michio Kaku, etc, Floating University
Great Economists: Classical Economics and Its Forerunners – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan & Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
History of Economic Theory – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Dr Shivakumar, IIT Madras
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Maximilian Auffhammer, UC Berkeley
International Finance – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Arun K. Misra, IIT Kharagpur
International Political Economy – Free iTunes Audio – James Morrison, Middlebury College
International Trade – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
International Trade – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Introduction to Economics – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Syllabus – Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy – Free Online Video – Free Online Video 2 – Peter Berck, UC Berkeley
Law and Economics I – Free iTunes Audio – Robert Cooter, UC Berkeley
Lectures on Human Capital – Free Online Video – Gary Becker, U Chicago
Marxian Economics – Free Online Video – Stephen Resnick, UMass – Amherst
Mexico’s Economy: Current Prospects and History – Free Online Video – Robin Grier, U. of Oklahoma
Microeconomic Theory with Application to Natural Resources – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Calanit Kamala, UC Berkeley
Money and Banking (Syllabus) – Free Online Video – Gerald Epstein, UMass-Amherst
Money and Banking – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
Money, Trade and Society – Free iTunes Video – Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
Poker Theory and Analytics – Free Multiple Formats – Kevin Desmond, MIT
Political Economy After the Crisis – Free Online Video – Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
Principles of Economics: Microeconomics – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason/MRUniversity
Principles of Microeconomics – Free iTunes Video – Free Video – Jonathan Gruber, MIT
Principles of Macroeconomics – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
Principles of Macroeconomics – Free iTunes Audio – Ann Stevens, UC Davis
Psychology and Economics – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Daniel Acland, UC Berkeley
Public Economics – Free Online Video – Free Video & Related Materials – Raj Chetty, Harvard
Public Economics and Finance – Free Video & Course Info – Free Online Video – Nirupama Rao, NYU
Radical Capitalism – Free iTunes Audio – William Kline, University of Illinois-Springfield
Reading Marx’s Capital: Vol 1 – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Free Video & Related Materials – David Harvey, City University of New York
Reading Marx’s Capital: Vol 2 – Free Online Video – David Harvey, City University of New York
Sports Economics – Free iTunes Audio – Liam Lenten, La Trobe University
The Eurozone Crisis – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis – Free Online Video – Ben Bernanke at George Washington University
The Austrian School of Economics: An Introduction – Free Online Audio: 1, 2, 3, 4 – Friedrich A. Hayek & colleagues – Recorded at University of Colorado
The Challenge of World Poverty – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Related Materials – Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
The Elements of Economic Analysis – Free Online Video – Glen Weyl, U Chicago
The Power of Macroeconomics – Free Online Video – Free Online Video + Course Info – Peter Navarro, UC-Irvine
World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution – Free Online Video & Syllabus – Free iTunes Video – Gregory Clark, UC Davis
World Economy in the 20th Century – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Calanit Kamala, UC Berkeley