Complete collection of Online Economics Textbooks

Posted on December 11, 2006
Filed Under Economics/Business books, Economics/Business education, Macroeconomics

Here you have a list of economic theory books that will help you to understand basic concepts and complicated issues of one of the most interesting subjects: economics.

Introductory Economics

*Cybernomics: A Semi-Interactive, Almost Multimedia Way to Learn Economics
An online principles text by Robert E. Schenk (Saint Joseph’s College, IN)

*The Economics Net-TextBook by Ted Black (University of Maryland)

This online text provides useful simulation and review material on an extensive collection of micro, macro, and international economics topics.

*Essential Macroeconomic Principles by John Bouman (Howard Community College)
An online macroeconomics text available in either Adobe pdf or Microsoft Word format.

*Essential
Microeconomic Principles by John Bouman (Howard Community College)
An online microeconomics text available in either Adobe pdf or Microsoft Word format.

*The Best of Economics by Arnold Kling
An online textbook containing a discussion of a wide variety of economics topics.

*Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Approach by Roger A. McCain (Drexel University)
The most extensive attempt at an online economics text using hypermedia.

*Human Society and the Global Economy by Kit Sims Taylor (Bellevue Community College)
This site contains an online version of a survey text in economics that relies on an institutionalist/Post-Keynesian approach. The text may be viewed online or Word 7.0 copies of the chapters may be downloaded.

*A Pedestrian’s Guide to Economics by Orley Amos (Oklahoma State University)
An online expanded version of his Economic Literacy book. This book is designed to provide an intuitive explanation of economic concepts to the general public (and struggling principles students).

Introductory Macroeconomics

Intermediate Macroeconomics

Graduate Microeconomics

*Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory: The Economic Agent by Ariel Rubinstein

This text, published by Princeton University Press (2006) contains a set of lecture notes for the first quarter of a
graduate microeconomics course. These notes were developed by Ariel Rubinstein will teaching graduate microeconomics courses at Tel Aviv, Princeton, and New York Universities. A printable verion of this text, corrections, links, and minor modifications may be found at: http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/index.html.

Agricultural and Resource Economics

*Agricultural and Environmental Policies: Economics of Production, Technology, Risk, Agriculture, and the Environment by David Zilberman
An online agricultural and resource economics text at an intermediate to advanced level.

Auction Markets

*Auctions: Theory and Practice by Paul Klemperer.
This is a near-final draft of the 2004 Princeton University text with the same title.

Bounded Rationality

*Modeling Bounded Rationality by Ariel Rubinstein
The entire 1998 MIT Press text is available online at this site. This book contains an investigation of methods that have been used to introduce the effects of bounded rationality into economic models.

Computational Economics

*Computational Economics by Hans M. Amman and David A. Kendrick
This online text provides an overview of computational economics.

Economics and Language

*Economics and Language by Ariel Rubinstein
This website contains links to the full-text of this collection of five essays examining the relationships between economics and language. These essays are extended versions of the Churchill lectures delivered by Ariel Rubinstein in May 1998. Among other issues, these essays examine the relationship between mathematical language and natural language in economic analysis. This was initially published by Cambridge University Press in 2000.

Econometrics

*A Course of Econometrics by D.S.G. Pollock.
This online text contains a discussion of econometric theory written at an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

*Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation by Kenneth Train.
The entire text of the 2003 Cambridge University Press text is available here in PDF format for personal research and study.

*Econometrics by Michael Creel
An open source econometrics textbook.

*Handbook of Econometrics, vol. 1-5
Elsevier has now placed the first 5 volumes of the Handbook of Econometrics online in Adobe pdf format.

*Lectures in Optimization by Pravin Varaiya.
This is the text of a book that has been out of print since 1975. It provides a discussion of mathematical programming, optimal control, and dynamic programming.

*Lectures in Introductory
Econometrics by D.S.G. Pollock.
This online booklet contains a discussion of basic econometric theory written at an advanced undergraduate or graduate
level.

*Probability Theory with
Economic Applications by Efe A. Ok
This online text contains a graduate-level discussion of basic concepts of probability theory. Economic
examples are used throughout the text.

Structural Analysis of Discrete Data and Econometric Applications, edited by Charles F. Manski and Daniel L. McFadden
The complete text of this classic 1981 MIT Press volume is available in either Adobe PDF or Postscript format.

Numerical Recipes in C

The entire 2nd edition of Numerical Recipes in C is available on ths site.

Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77
The entire 2nd edition of Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77 is available on ths site.

Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90
The entire 2nd edition of Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90 is available on ths site.

*Topics
in Econometric Theory by D.S.G. Pollard.

This work consists of a series of essays on applied econometric topics.

Urban Travel Demand: A
Behavioral Analysis by Tom Domencich and Daniel L. McFadden
The entire text of this 1975 North-Holland volume is available at this site in both Adobe PDF and Postscript formats.

Game Theory

*Bargaining and Markets
by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein.
This is an online version of the text published by Academic Press in 1990.

*Strategy and Conflict: An Introductory Sketch of Game Theory by Roger A. McCain

This online text contains a brief, nontechnical solid introduction to game theory concepts and their application to economics.

Statistics

*Electronic Statistics
Textbook by StatSoft
An online statistics textbook from the company that provides the statistical software package, Statistica.

*HyperStat Online Textbook by David M. Lane.
An online statistics textbook containing Java and Javascript applications.

*Lectures in Mathematical Statistics by D.S.G. Pollock.

This site contains a series of detailed lecture notes on statistics at an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level.

*Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications by David W. Stockburger.
This online text contains an introductory discussion of basic statistical concepts.

*Statnotes: An Online Textbook by G. David Garson.
This online text contains a discussion of basic statistical concepts.

*SurfStat Australia
An online introductory statistics text in HTML format.

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