Beyond Economics

Misc. Graphs and Statistics

• Gapminder World: The Beauty of Statistics for a Fact-Based World
• The Most Important Graphs of 2011 (The Atlantic – 12/21/2011)
• Stat Silk (World Statistics Visualization)
• Shadow Government Statistics

The New Economy

• PBS: Fixing the Future – How the New Economy Works (animations)
  Full Video (1 hour)
• Hour Exchange – Portland
• Bitcoin: P2P Digital Currency

Misc.

PBS Video: Plight of the Middle Class in Nashua, NH (1/6/2012)

The Economics of Seinfeld

Economic Basics

• “History of Economic Thought” -Comprehensive outline of economics from a historical perspective
• “Macroeconomics” Wikibook
• “Microeconomics” Wikibook
• “Principles of Finance” Wikibook

Money & Banking:

• MONEY: What it is? How it works?
• American Public Media: Marketplace Whiteboard-Collection of videos explaining financial topics
• Training For Bank Directors Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Banking Regulation: Fifth Edition Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Financial Markets:

• Financial Markets -Professor Robert Shiller’s course Financial Markets available online (video lectures, notes, etc.)
• Instruments of the Money Market
• US Treasury FAQs: Financial Markets
• Tools of the Trade: A Basic Guide to Financial Derivatives

Monetary Policy:

• “Monetary Economics” Wikibook
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
• US Monetary Policy and Financial Markets

International Trade & Finance

• International Finance and Development
• The Basics of Foreign Trade and Exchange
• All About…The Foreign Exchange Market in the United States
• International Trade: Everyday Economics
• The Basics of Foreign Trade and Exchange
• All About…The Foreign Exchange Market in the United States
• U.S. Foreign Exchange Intervention
• What is the Balance of Payments?
• The Economics of Currency Crises and Contagion: An Introduction
• The Determinants of International Flows of U.S. Currency