The Best Economics Courses of Hacker News
Hacker News was created by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, as a place for tech-savvy individuals to share and discuss interesting content related to technology, startups, programming, and more.
Initially, it started as a simple link aggregator, where users could submit links to articles, blog posts, and projects they found intriguing.
Over time, it evolved into a thriving community with a strong emphasis on intellectual curiosity, thoughtful discussions, and quality content.
I'm an avid reader of Hacker News and often come across high-quality discussions from the community. I found that the courses and books people discuss on Hacker News are really good, so I conduct monthly analyses and aggregate the top courses/books found in comments and rank them.
Top Courses
Economics of Money and Banking
Coursera · Columbia University · 6 HN points · 26 HN commentsThe Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910
Coursera · University of Virginia · 8 HN commentsScience Matters: Let's Talk About COVID-19
Coursera · Imperial College London, Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA) · 25 HN points · 1 HN commentsIntroduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
Coursera · University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics · 10 HN points · 3 HN commentsGlobal Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change
Coursera · The University of Chicago · 3 HN commentsPrinciples of Economics with Calculus
edX · Caltech · 1 HN commentsMacroeconometric Forecasting
edX · The International Monetary Fund · 1 HN commentsAlgorithmic Toolbox
Coursera · University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics · 1 HN commentsNetworks, Crowds and Markets
edX · Cornell University · 2 HN points · 1 HN commentsFashion as Design
Coursera · The Museum of Modern Art · 1 HN commentsAge of Cathedrals
Coursera · Yale University · 1 HN commentsMicroeconomics: The Power of Markets
Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 3 HN pointsMacroeconometric Forecasting
edX · The International Monetary Fund · 1 HN commentsMicroeconomics Principles
Coursera · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 1 HN commentsThe Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World
Coursera · University of California, Irvine · 1 HN commentsThe Age of Sustainable Development
Coursera · Columbia University · 1 HN pointsSocial and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis
Coursera · Stanford University · 1 HN pointsCyber Security Economics
edX · Delft University of Technology · 1 HN points · 1 HN comments
Our methodology
We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"
It's the result of mining the HN archives for references to online courses and then ranking them and displaying all references in one place.
Ranking currently takes into account HN stories (points) and comments (sentiment, karma, estimated points).
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