Free Economics Courses

This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy.

Robert Shiller, Yale professor and the 2013 Nobel Prize winner for Economics, teaches an open course on Financial Markets via Open Yale Courses.

Public finance (also known as public economics) analyzes the impact of public policy on the allocation of resources and the distribution of income in the economy.

This course provides a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of modern financial analysis and applications...

In 35 episodes, Adriene Hill and Jacob Clifford teach you economics! This course is based on introductory college level curriculum and the 2015 AP Economics guidelines.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs addresses the ongoing and urgent problem of sustainable development in these intimate MOOC course lectures provided by YouTube.

This course covers the nature and functions of money. Topics include a survey of the operation and development of the banking system in the U.S. and an introduction to the monetary policy.

In the course "Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform" from Yale University, Professor Douglas W. Rae looks at the history of capitalism along with its leading economists including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other influential economists.

In this ten-lecture course sponsored by George and Joele Eddy, Jörg Guido Hülsmann explains how Mises's life took dramatic turns, what contributions Mises made to the social sciences, and how Mises never gave up and never gave in.

This course details the nature and development of economies from pre-history to the Industrial Revolution.