Moving the City Tech ECON 1101 course to an OER…
Open textbooks to use:
1. Principles of Macroeconomics by OpenStax College is licensed under a Creative Commons License 4.0 International.
Senior Contributing Author: Timothy Taylor, Macalester College
Published: March 2014.
2. Principles of Macroeconomics by Libby Rittenberg (Colorado College) and Timothy Tregarthen (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA.
Broken down by syllabus topic(s):
| Navigational note: In OpenStax web view, please click on “Contents” in the upper left to see ALL chapter sections | ||
| TOPICS | OERs | |
| Topic One | Principles: scarcity, macro vs. micro economics; economic decision making; participants in the market economy; economic systems | Ch. 1 – Welcome to Economics! & Ch. 2.1 – Choice in a World of Scarcity, OpenStax |
| Topic Two | Economic models | Ch. 2.2 – Production possibilities frontier & Ch. 2.3 – Confronting objections to the economic approach, OpenStax |
| Topic Three | Supply and demand | Ch. 3 – Demand and Supply, OpenStax |
| Topic Four | Macroeconomics: theory and policy | |
| Topic Five | Tracking the Macroeconomy |
Ch. 6 – the Macroeconomic perspective, OpenStax Ch. 7 – Economic growth, OpenStax Ch. 6 – Measuring total output and income, Rittenberg & Tregarthen |
| Topic Six | Unemployment and Inflation | Ch. 16 – Inflation and unemployment, Rittenberg & Tregarthen |
| Topic Seven | Measuring inflation | Ch. 9 Inflation, OpenStax |
| Topic Eight | Fiscal policy | Ch. 17 – Government budgets and Fiscal policy, OpenStax |
| Topic Nine | Money, banking, and the Federal Reserve System | |
| Topic Ten | Monetary policy | Ch. 15.3 – 15.5 Monetary policy, OpenStax |
| Topic Eleven | International Trade | Ch. 20 – International trade, OpenStax |
