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Free economics textbook

Techdirt: If You're Looking To Learn Basic Economics, Here's A Free Textbook

Against Monopoly points us to an LA Times story about an economics professor from Caltech, R. Preston McAfee, who has written what he calls an "open source" economics textbook. You can download the textbook for free, and can even modify it (he offers up both a pdf version and a "source code" Word doc). It's not quite "open source" in that you're not allowed to do anything commercial with it, but it's certainly a lot cheaper than a standard econ textbook. We get plenty of questions here about where one should start learning about economics knowledge -- and while a textbook without a teacher isn't always the best place, if you did want to dig into a text, this is obviously a good place to start.

(I've changed the links anchors a little from the original article.) Looks useful, and the price is right. Even the printed copy price -- $11.10 -- is right, so go buy that if you prefer the hard stuff.