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The Reading Lists by Topic pages contain some suggested readings organized by topic, including materials available on Econlib. Brief reviews or descriptions are included for many items.
Supplementary materials for popular college textbooks used in courses in the Principles of Economics, Microeconomics, Price Theory, and Macroeconomics are suggested by topic.
These free resources are appropriate for teachers of high school and AP economics, social studies, and history classes. They are also appropriate for interested students, home schoolers, and newcomers to the topic of economics.
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Definitions and Basics Productivity, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics Productivity—the amount of output per unit of input—is a basic yardstick of an economy's h...
Definitions and Basics Opportunity Cost, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics When economists refer to the "opportunity cost" of a resource, they mean the value of the ...
Definitions and Basics "Incentives Matter", by Russ Roberts at Econlib, June 5, 2006. Incentives matter. The most famous example in economics is the idea of the demand curveâ...
Economic Systems Although economists identify just two major economic systems, market and command, in reality, most economies fall somewhere in between the two. Some economies...
Definitions and Basics Stock Market, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics The price of a share of stock, like that of any other financial asset, equals the present valu...