Business
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Case Studies
Canada’s Pacific Groundfish Trawl Fishery: Ecosystem Conflicts (CC BY)
An open case study by the University of British Columbia that looks at conflicts between British Columbia’s commercial fishing industry and environmental NGOs.
Collections
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (Various CC licences)
This repository is the largest single source of knowledge on economic development around the world.
Courses
Lectures in Quantitative Economics (CC BY-ND)
This website presents a series of lectures on quantitative economic modelling. It provides a hands-on instruction manual, with all code written in modern, open source programming languages. Topics include algorithms and numerical methods for studying economic problems, related mathematical and statistical concepts, and basics of coding skills and software engineering. The intended audience is upper level undergraduate students and graduate students and researchers in economics, finance and related fields. There are two versions of the website, a Python version and a Julia version.
Open Learning Campus (OLC) (Check individual resources for permissions)
Inspired by the success and credibility of proven approaches to online learning, the OLC is a learning ecosystem that is open, interactive and networked. It leverages the vast knowledge of the World Bank Group (WBG) and its partners and converts it into actionable learning for effective development.
Textbooks
CORE: The Economy (CC BY-NC-ND)
This introductory economics textbook is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Portuguese, and German. The text focuses on evidence and case studies on the economy, from around the world, and from history. It is motivated by questions—how can we explain what we see? The method is to ask interesting questions first and then to introduce models that help to answer them. Standard tools such as constrained optimization are taught by showing how they give insight into real-world problems.
CORE: Economy, Society, and Public Policy (CC BY-NC-ND)
An economics text that has been specifically designed for students from social science, public policy, business and management, engineering, biology, and other disciplines, who are not economics majors. The book is also being used successfully in courses for economics, business, and public policy majors, as well as in economics modules for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and masters’ courses in Public Policy.
Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy (CC BY-NC)
America has evolved into an ownership society. Home-buying decisions, resource allocation, debt exposure, and financial planning for the future are now left to individuals, many of whom may lack the financial understanding to evaluate and make sound decisions. Economics, with its insistence on quantifying ideas and putting specific quantitative values on all manner of phenomena, can help sort through the questions. Economics for Life: Real-World Financial