Free Economics Courses

Financial institutions are a pillar of civilized society, supporting people in their productive ventures and managing the economic risks they take on.

This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy.

This course provides a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of modern financial analysis and applications...

In this course, we will seek to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: firms pursuing varied strategies and facing extinction when those strategies fail are analogous to organisms struggling for survival in nature.

In 35 episodes, Adriene Hill and Jacob Clifford teach you economics! This course is based on introductory college level curriculum and the 2015 AP Economics guidelines.

Wharton's Advanced Seminar on Private Equity features a series of case studies, most of them presented by Wharton alumni in the industry.

Public finance (also known as public economics) analyzes the impact of public policy on the allocation of resources and the distribution of income in the economy.

Jeffrey Sachs's new, free course, "The Age of Sustainable Development," gives students an understanding of the key challenges and pathways to sustainable development...

This series of lectures recorded during the Spring of 2010 are from ECON 343 -- Human Capital, a class taught every year by Gary Becker at the University of Chicago. In this class, Becker expounds upon the theory of Human Capital that he helped create and for which he won the Nobel Prize.

This course covers the nature and functions of money. Topics include a survey of the operation and development of the banking system in the U.S. and an introduction to the monetary policy.