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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.
CORE: The Economy
This open textbook (available in English and in French) functions as a standard introduction-to-economics text.
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.
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.
Macroeconomics 1-2
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.
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
Principles of Economics
Principles of Economics
Description: This book is intended for a two-semester course in Economics taught out of the social sciences or business school. Principles of Economics aims to teach considerable range and depth of Economic concepts through an approachable style and methodology. The authors take a three-pronged approach to every chapter: The concept is covered with a “Heads Up” to ward off confusion, a real-world application for that concept, and a “You Try It” section to make sure students are staying on top of the concept. For questions about this textbook please contact textbookuse@umn.edu
Principles of Economics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning, 2nd Edition
Description: Welcome to Principles of Economics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning, a pluralistic textbook designed for two-semester principles of economics sequences. We are calling this the second edition of the text, though the first addition covered only the microeconomics side.
Principles of Economics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning takes a pluralistic approach to the standard topics of introductory economics courses. The text builds on the chiefly neoclassical (or orthodox economics) material of the OpenStax Principles of Economics text, adding extensive content from heterodox economic thought. Emphasizing the importance of pluralism and critical thinking, the text presents the method and theory of neoclassical economics alongside critiques thereof and heterodox alternatives in both method and theory. This approach is taken from the outset of the text, where contrasting definitions of economics are discussed in the context of the various ways in which orthodox and heterodox economists study the subject. The same approach–of theory and method, critique, and alternative theory and method–is taken in the study of consumption, production, market exchange, macroeconomic equilibrium, fiscal and monetary policy, as well as in the applied theory chapters. Historical and contemporary examples are given throughout, and both theory and application are presented with a balanced approach.
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Macroeconomics
Description: The goal of this textbook is to help students understand how real individuals actually work with economics. In this textbook, the authors illustrate the practicality and relevance of economics with a variety of new illustrations and insights. For questions about this textbook please contact textbookuse@umn.edu
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.
Principles of Macroeconomics: Lyryx
Principles of Microeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics: Lyryx
Techniques of Calculus 1
Description: The study of calculus is the study of change. Since change is all around us, calculus is one of the most applied topics in mathematics. In this course, we will use calculus methods to investigate many topics in economics, physical and biological sciences and social science fields. After a brief pre-calculus review, we will cover derivatives and rates of change, followed by a discussion of integration. Real world applications will be emphasized to allow us to see the use of calculus methods to solve examples from business, management, social science, etc. From these two basic concepts of differentiation and integration, calculus techniques can be applied to solve advanced problems in many fields.