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This is a linkpost for the online courses and series of the Marginal Revolution University[1] (MRU):
- Development Economics by Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen (course). "Economic growth, geography, trade, property rights, foreign aid, politics, poverty, migration, education, and more".
- Economic History of the Soviet Union by Guinevere Liberty Nell (course). "Marxist Utopianism, The New Economic Policy in crisis, Stalin's rise, and more".
- Economics of the Media by Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen (course). "Basic economics of the media, media bias, media and government, and more".
- Economists in the Wild (series). "A video series that profiles economists and their adventures with real-world research".
- Everyday Economics by Alex Tabarrok, Don Boudreaux, Ian Bremmer and Tyler Cowen (series). "How do the “big ideas” from economics relate to everyday topics?".
- Great Economists: Classical Economics and Its Forerunners by Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen (course). "Isaac Gervaise, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Hayek, and more".
- International Finance by Alex Tabarrok, Don Boudreaux, Ian Bremmer and Tyler Cowen (course). "Exchange rates, currency issues, Euro Crisis, international trade, and more".
- International Trade by Alex Tabarrok, Don Boudreaux, Ian Bremmer and Tyler Cowen (course). "Comparative advantage, increasing returns to scale, factor endowments, arbitrage across borders, tariffs, NAFTA, and more".
- Mastering Econometrics with Joshua Angrist (course). "Ceteris paribus, selection bias, randomized trials, regression, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, diff-in-diff, and more".
- Mexico's Economy: Current Prospects and History by Robin Grier (course). "Growth, independence, development strategies, reforms, Peso Crisis, NAFTA, and more".
- Money Skills by Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen (course). "Investing, career, efficient market hypothesis, compound returns, renting vs. buying, behavioral finance, and more".
- Nobel Conversations (series). "An interview series featuring Nobel laureates Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens. Hosted by John Bates Clark winner Isaiah Andrews".
- Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics by Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen (course). "Causes of wealth, Solow growth model, financial intermediation, unemployment, inflation, business cycles, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and more".
- Principles of Economics: Microeconomics by Alex Tabarrok, Joana Girante and Tyler Cowen (course). "Supply and demand, prices, the invisible hand, trade, monopoly, externalities, wages, public goods, asymmetric info, and more".
- The Eurozone Crisis by Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen (course). "The three sides of the crisis, European Central Bank, bailouts, underlying theories, and more".
- Understanding Data by Thomas Stratmann (course). "The power of statistics, random control trails, analytical approaches, linear regression, and more".
- Women in Economics (series). This "highlights the groundbreaking and inspiring work of female economists — not only to recognize the important work they’ve done but to also share their inspirational journeys".
I have completed the course Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics, and found it very useful to clarify, solify and expand my knowledge about macroeconomics. I have a background in engineering, but guess it is one the most cost-effective ways of learning macroeconomics. The course comprises 80 videos on the following topics:
- GDP:
- The Wealth of Nations and Economic Growth:
- Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Economics of Ideas:
- Introduction to the Solow Model.
- Physical Capital and Diminishing Returns.
- The Solow Model and the Steady State.
- Office Hours: The Solow Model.
- Human Capital and Conditional Convergence.
- The Solow Model and Ideas.
- Office Hours: The Solow Model: Investments vs. Ideas.
- The Economics of Ideas.
- Patents, Prizes, and Subsidies.
- TED Talk: How Ideas Trump Crises.
- The Idea Equation.
- Savings, Investment, and the Financial System:
- Personal Finance:
- Unemployment and Labor Force Participation:
- Inflation and Quantity Theory of Money:
- Zimbabwe and Hyperinflation: Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?.
- Measuring Inflation.
- Quantity Theory of Money.
- Causes of Inflation.
- Costs of Inflation: Price Confusion and Money Illusion.
- Costs of Inflation: Financial Intermediation Failure.
- Inflation Throughout the Ages: What Would You Do?.
- Office Hours: Costs of Inflation.
- Why Governments Create Inflation.
- Business Fluctuations:
- Business Cycle Theories:
- Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve:
- Monetary Policy and the Fed.
- The U.S. Money Supplies.
- The Money Multiplier.
- How the Fed Worked: Before the Great Recession.
- How the Fed Works: After the Great Recession.
- The Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort.
- Monetary Policy: The Best Case Scenario.
- Monetary Policy: The Negative Real Shock Dilemma.
- When the Fed Does Too Much.
- Fiscal Policy:
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I listed the courses and instructors alphabetically.
I completed their course on Microeconomics and I found it helpful.
Thanks for commenting, and welcome to the EA Forum, Jachym! I am now doing their course on microeconomics, and I am finding it super helpful too.