Economic
and Game Theory
Open Texts
by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
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The
goal of our open texts projects is to encourage the development of
first rate collaborative texts. One part of this project was to develop
a suitable open
source license for
collaborative
text book writing. Since that time, the creative
commons project
has
developed more directly suitable open source licenses. As a start on
this direction Levine has released his class notes and slides under
both
our license and the equivalent creative commons license.
David
K. Levine's notes and slides for
courses on game theory and microeconomics. All of this material is
released under the open
text license and the equivalent
creative commons license: the Attribution-ShareAlike
License.
Your
material here
available under an open source license...email David.
Related Sites:
OpenTextBook:
"an
effort to create a free textbook using methods developed by the F/OSS
community." Consists of a draft mathematical textbook.
Econometrics
by Michael Creel: An open source
project to develop an Econometrics
textbook together with hyperlinks to supporting programs written in the
open source Octave programming language. It is currently in between
lecture notes and textbook in terms of content - but looks very
suitable for further development.
Creative Commons:
has developed a variety of copyleft licenses for a variety of purposes.
Basically since they are doing a good job, I recommend using their
licenses, and we will probably not further develop our own license in
favor of theirs.
opentextbookproject: The stated goal is to develop copylefted textbooks. At the moment the site is "all hat and no cattle" consisting only of a single web page explaining their objective.
Lulu: This is not a copyleft organization, but rather a commercial publishing organization building an open marketplace for all forms of digital content, from books and images to music. They purchased on earlier project, OpenMind publishing, that allows you to modify texts for your own classes, and appear to be pushing forward the project of collaborative and customized textbook production started by OpenMind.
Open Texts