Students who need a refresher, would like to learn economics concepts on their own, or who may need additional support in a class may find helpful resources below. These come recommended by faculty and students, or provided by economic associations. These resources are not maintained by our office, so please contact the overseeing entity for questions.
Learning Guides/Tutorials
Marginal Revolution University: Learn Economics, understand your world. Marginal Revolution University creates free and engaging economics videos taught by top professors.
Khan Academy: You can learn anything, for free, for everyone, forever. Subjects include Economics, Finance & Capital Markets, Computing, Math and others.
About.com Economics: variety of resources for students and others
AmosWorld: Student guide with a glossary and on-line tests
Dictionaries, Glossaries, & Encyclopedias: List of such resources in RFE
Moody's Dismal Scientist: Macro and regional data with analysis plus general commentary
Online Glossary of Research Economics: Research terms explained (appropriate for graduate students)
Understanding the World Today: A multifaceted review of recent decades
Resources from the American Economic Association
Podcasts
Project Syndicate Columnists
- Project Syndicate - leading economists' op-eds
Commentaries
- Vox - "Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe's leading economists"
Blog aggregators and listings
- EconAcademics.org - aggregator of blogs with a research focus
- Economics Roundtable - aggregates economics blogs
- MacroDigest - aggregates macro news from many sources
Blogs
- Adam Smith Institute
- Angry Bear
- Aplia Econ Blog -- News for Econ Students
- The Baseline Scenario
- Beat the Press (Dean Baker)
- Becker-Posner Blog
- Ben Bernanke's Blog
- Chris Blattman
- The Big Picture: Macro perspectives on the Economy & Capital Markets (Barry Ritholtz)
- Businomics (Bill Conerly)
- Cafe Hayek (Don Boudreaux and Russ Roberts)
- Calculated Risk
- Capital Gains and Games
- Capital Spectator (James Picerno)
- Conversable Economist (Tim Taylor)
- Core Economics
- Council of Economic Advisers Blog (CEA)
- Daniel W. Drezner
- Dear Economist & Undercover Economist (Tim Harford)
- Brad DeLong's Thoughts of the Moment on Economics, and on Other Topics
- Art Diamond Web Log
- Digitopoly (Brynjolfsson, Gans, Greenstein)
- Director's Blog (Congressional Budget Office)
- Ed Dolan's Econ Blog
- Econbrowser (Menzie Chinn and James D. Hamilton)
- Econometrics Beat (Dave Giles)
- Economic Logic
- Economic Perspectives from Kansas City
- Economics for Teachers (Jennifer Imazeki)
- Economics One (John Taylor)
- EconomicsUK (David Smith)
- Economists Do It With Models (Jodi Beggs)
- Economist's Forum (Martin Wolf)
- Economist's View (Mark Thoma)
- Economic Principals (David Warsh)
- Economix (New York Times)
- Econosseur (Richard W. Evans and Jason DeBacker)
- EconLog (Arnold Kling, Bryan Caplan, and David Henderson)
- Environmental and Urban Economics (Matthew E. Kahn)
- Environmental Economics
- Eurozone Watch
- Jeff Frankel's Weblog
- Freakonomics Blog (Steve Levitt and Steve Dubner)
- Free Exchange (Economist magazine)
- The Grumpy Economist (John Cochrane)
- The Incidental Economist
- The Knowledge Problem (Lynne Kiesling and Michael Giberson)
- Paul Krugman website
- Steve Landsburg
- Liberty Street Economics
- Greg Mankiw's Blog
- Macroadvisers (Macroeconomic Advisers)
- macroblog (David Altig)
- Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok)
- Market Design (Al Roth)
- Mises Economics Blog
- Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis (Michael Shedlock)
- Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (Steve Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz)
- Money Illusion
- Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum
- MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators
- Naked Capitalism
- NEP-ARA Blog: Middle East and North Africa
- NEP-DGE Blog (Christian Zimmermann)
- NEP-HIS Blog: Business, Economic and Financial History
- NEP-INT Blog: International Trade
- NEP-LTV Blog: Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty
- NEP-OPM Blog: Open Economy Macro
- New Economic Times (John Irons)
- Newmark's Door
- NYT Economic Scene (Eduardo Porter)
- Offsetting Behavior
- OMB Watch
- Organizations and Markets
- Overcoming Bias (Robin Hansen)
- QFINANCE Blogs
- Real Time Economics (Wall Street Journal)
- Dani Rodrik
- Nouriel Roubini's Blog
- Sports Economist (Raymond Sauer)
- St. Maximos' Hut
- Street Light (Kash Mansori)
- Stone Garden Economics (Jurgen Brauer)
- Stumbling and Mumbling
- Larry Summer's Blog
- World Bank
Recent Books
Here are some recent books for a general audience that will be useful for students who may consider studying economics. Many of the essays and books a student will find in the databases on the facts & ideas page are written for other economists. In contrast, the popular books are intended for students and others who have not studied economics. Many economists recall that reading a few books like those listed here sparked their interest in studying economics.