Study economics at Yale and Berkeley – for free

Brad DeLong
Brad DeLong, UC Berkeley

Undergraduate yearly tuition at Yale is now $49,800 and at Berkeley it’s $35,000 (out of state), but you can skip that and the keg parties and audit some of these fine institutions’ most interesting courses online for free.

Open Culture editor Dan Colman aggregates links to free online university courses from worthwhile lecturers. Here’s Colman’s section on Economics, and it looks very strong.  Head over and get smart on these topics from these top profs:

Economic History – Audio – J. Bradford DeLong, UC Berkeley
Economic Crisis and Globalization -Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
Economic Geography of the Industrial World – Audio – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
Financial Markets – Audio or Video – Robert Shiller, Yale
Game Theory – Audio or Video – Ben Polak, Yale
Introduction to Economics – Audio – J. Bradford DeLong, UC Berkeley
Macroeconomic Analysis – Audio – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
Marxist Economics – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
Microeconomic Analysis – Audio – Gordon Rausser, UC Berkeley
Money and Banking – Audio – Dean Balm, UCLA
Reading Marx’s Capital – Video – David Harvey, City University of New York

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