OER - Business

Economics – Theory Through Applications
Andrew John, Melbourne Business School
Russell Cooper, European University Institute

• This textbook, Economics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem

Money and Banking
Robert E. Wright, NYU

• This book is intended for the Money and Banking course.  Wright and Quadrini’s book is the first Money and Banking text to emerge from the financial crisis of 2007-2008 with ample coverage.

Principles of Economics

• This book is intended for a two-semester course in Economics taught out of the social sciences or business school.  Principles of Economics aims to teach considerable range and depth of Economic concepts through an approachable style and methodology.  The authors take a three-pronged approach to every chapter: The concept is covered with a “Heads Up” to ward off confusion, a real-world application for that concept, and a “You Try It” section to make sure students are staying on top of the concept.

Principles of Economics
Multiple Authors, OpenStax College

• Principles of Economics covers the scope and sequence for a two-semester principles of economics course. The text also includes many current examples, including; discussions on the great recession, the controversy among economists over the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the recent government shutdown, and the appointment of the United States’ first female Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen.

Principles of Microeconomics
Multiple Authors, OpenStax College

• Principles of Microeconomics covers the scope and sequence for a one-semester economics course. The text also includes many current examples, including; the Keystone Pipeline, Occupy Wall Street, and debates over the minimum wage.

Introduction to Economic Analysis
Dr Preston McAfee, Caltech
Dr Tracy R Lewis, Duke University

• This book is suited for an Intermediate Microeconomics course where calculus is required.  Introduction to Economic Analysis presents standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that, in the authors' view, ought to be standard but is not.  Introductory economics material is integrated.  Standard mathematical tools, including calculus, are used throughout. The book easily serves as an intermediate microeconomics text, and can be used for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics.

Microeconomics: Markets, Methods and Models
Doug Curtis, Trent University
Ian Irvine, Concordia University

• Microeconomics: Markets, Methods and Models provides a concise, yet complete, coverage of introductory microeconomic theory, application and policy in a Canadian and global environment. Our beginning is orthodox: we explain and develop the standard tools of analysis in the discipline. Economic policy is about the well-being of the economy’s participants, and economic theory should inform economic policy. So we investigate the meaning of ‘well-being’ in the context of an efficient use of the economy’s resources early in the text.

Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications
Andrew John, Melbourne Business School
Russell Cooper, European University Institute

• This textbook, Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem

Macroeconomics: Theory through Applications

Andrew John, Melbourne Business School
Russell Cooper, European University Institute

• This textbook, Macroeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem.

Macroeconomics: Theory, Models & Policy

Doug Curtis, Trent University
Ian Irvine, Concordia University

• Macroeconomics: Theory, Markets, and Policy provides complete, concise coverage of introductory macroeconomics theory and policy. It examines the Canadian economy as an economic system, and embeds current Canadian institutions and approaches to monetary policy and fiscal policy within that system

Principles of Macroeconomics

• The goal of this textbook is to help students understand how real individuals actually work with economics. In this textbook, the authors illustrate the practicality and relevance of economics with a variety of new illustrations and insights.

Principles of Macroeconomics
Multiple Authors, OpenStax College

• Principles of Macroeconomics covers the scope and sequence for a one-semester economics course. The text also includes many current examples, including: the housing bubble and housing crisis, Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation, global unemployment, and the appointment of the United States’ first female Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen.

International Trade: Theory and Policy
Steve Suranovic, George Washington University

• International Trade: Theory and Policy is intended for a one-semester course in International Trade.  The text is built on the author's belief that to understand the international economy, students need to learn how economic models are applied to real world problems.  The book presents a variety of international trade models including the Ricardian model, the Heckscher-Ohlin model, and the monopolistic competition model. It includes trade policy analysis in both perfectly competitive and imperfectly competitive markets. The text also addresses current issues such as free trade area formation and administered protection policies.

International Economics: Theory and Policy
Steve Suranovic, George Washington University

• This textbook offers students the theory and models to understand how economics works and how economists understand the world.

Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy
Elizabeth Pulos
Guillermo C. Jimenez

• This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics.

The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets
Andrew Barkley, Kansas State University

• 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.