Private: Faculty of Arts and Science – Social Sciences
Economics
Open Textbooks and Concordia Courses
| Open Textbook Title | Potentially Relevant Courses |
| Macroeconomics 1-2 | ECON 200, ECON 203 |
| Microeconomics 1-2 | ECON 201, ECON 301 |
| Economics (Openstax) | ECON 200, ECON 201, ECON 203, ECON 301 |
| CORE: The Economy | ECON 200, ECON 201, ECON 203, ECON 251 |
| Principles of Macroeconomic Literacy | ECON 200, ECON 203 |
| Introductory Business Statistics (Openstax) | ECON 221, ECON 222 |
| Applied Calculus (Openstax) | ECON 325, ECON 425 |
Description and Access
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics Volume 1 and Volume 2
Volume 1 concepts: principles of macroeconomics
Volume 2 concepts: theories, models and policy
University macroeconomics: Lyryx has been successfully adopted, was developed by professors of economics from American institutions and emphasizes the connection between application and theory.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, examples, exercises, solutions, summaries, and simulations
May suit: ECON 200, ECON 203
Microeconomics
Microeconomics 1-2
Volume 1 concepts: principles of microeconomics
Volume 2 concepts: markets, methods, and models
University microeconomics: Lyryx has been successfully adopted, was developed by professors of physics from American institutions and emphasizes the connection between application and theory.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, examples, exercises, solutions, summaries, and simulations
May suit: ECON 201, ECON 301
Economics
Economics (Openstax)
This economics text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in economics, from elasticity to inflation.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, solutions, and group activities
May suit: ECON 200, ECON 201, ECON 203, ECON 301
CORE: The Economy
This open textbook (available in English and in French) functions as a standard introduction-to-economics text
Includes: student resources, open textbook
May suit: ECON 200, ECON 201, ECON 203, ECON 251
Principles of Macroeconomic Literacy
Principles of Macroeconomic Literacy emphasizes basic economic concepts such as value and cost in developing macroeconomic ideas. Students learn concepts involving credit markets, economic planning, and money through short fictional stories in which characters interact in an attempt to make themselves better off. Where many texts put the student in the position of an imagined macroeconomic policy dictator, Principles of Macroeconomic Literacy attempts to make macroeconomics comprehensible to students who live everyday.
Includes: student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, and solutions
May suit: ECON 200, ECON 203
Business Stats
Introductory Business Statistics (Openstax)
This statistics text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in business statistics, from probability to confidence intervals.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, solutions, and group activities
May suit: ECON 221, ECON 222
Econ Calc
Applied Calculus (Openstax)
This Lumen Learning covers all of the concepts of first-year calculus with a balance of application and theory.
Includes: problem-solving guides, examples, videos, applications, problems, selected solutions, and summaries
May suit: ECON 325, ECON 425