Top Coursera Economics Courses by Reddit Upvotes
Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top.
It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.
Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users.
We've conducted analyses to find the best of Coursera from the depths of Reddit. This analysis has been conducted over 2.7 million Reddit upvotes.
Table of Contents
Top Economics courses
Economics of Money and Banking The last three or four decades have seen a remarkable evolution in the institutions that comprise the modern Columbia University | 0 reddit posts 95 mentions |
Game Theory Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind," game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and Stanford University | 0 reddit posts 56 mentions |
Model Thinking We live in a complex world with diverse people, firms, and governments whose behaviors aggregate to University of Michigan | 0 reddit posts 53 mentions |
Social and Economic Networks Learn how to model social and economic networks and their impact on human behavior Stanford University | 0 reddit posts 12 mentions |
Microeconomics We make economics decisions every day: what to buy, whether to work or play, what to study University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
Game Theory II Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and Stanford University | 0 reddit posts 7 mentions |
The Global Financial Crisis Former U Yale University | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
Институциональная экономика (Institutional economics) Этот курс – первый шаг к пониманию институтов и их роли в экономике и обществе, первый взгляд на богатую идеями и HSE University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Introduction to Neuroeconomics Economics, psychology, and neuroscience are converging today into a unified discipline of Neuroeconomics with the HSE University | 1 reddit posts 0 mentions |
Politics and Economics of International Energy Energy issues have always been important in international relations, but in recent years may have become even more Sciences Po | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
The Korean Economic Development You will review the evolution of the Korean economy decade by decade since Korea’s independence from Japan in Yonsei University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Introduction to Economic Theories Wondering why economists have not predicted serious financial crises? Shocked by economic Erasmus University Rotterdam | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Agriculture, Economics and Nature Sound economic thinking is crucial for farmers because they depend on good economic decision University of Western Australia | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Microeconomics Perfect markets achieve efficiency: maximizing total surplus generated University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Les transitions énergétique & écologique dans les pays du Sud L’Agence Française de Développement et l’ENS lancent la quatrième édition du MOOC « Transitions École normale supérieure | 1 reddit posts 0 mentions |
Public Economics This course offers an introduction into the public economics theory HSE University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Microeconomics Principles Most people make the incorrect assumption that economics is ONLY the study of money University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 reddit posts 45 mentions |
Trade, Immigration and Exchange Rates in a Globalized World This is the second of the three courses part of the Globalization, Economic Growth and Stability IE Business School | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Globalization, Economic Growth and Stability Navigate Through Today's Globalized Economy IE Business School | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Welcome to Game Theory This course provides a brief introduction to game theory The University of Tokyo | 1 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Our methodology
We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"
It's the result of mining Reddit posts and comments. The analysis looked at all (url-based) posts and comment mentions of Coursera courses on Reddit, ranking each course based on Reddit score, and showing each course with its top Reddit mentions.
Course Score is calculated with a slightly modified version of a simple popularity / age calculation.
course_score = sum(mention_scores) / course_age
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