On this page you will find information about our own Research into the Teaching of Economics in Universities and More Resources for University Teachers of Economics such as Teaching Software developed in the Department, Pointers to Centres which provide support for Higher Ed teaching in Economics and On-Line access to the widely used Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC). This database indexes monographs of interest to economics educators and also periodicals such as the Journal of Economic Education.

Dave Alden from the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne has written a Role Play for Environmental Economics.

Staff in the department have used data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to construct aggregated (9x9 sector) Input-Output Tables of the Australian Economy which are suitable for use in the classroom. The document provided here contains three tables; a flow table, a table of direct coefficients and a table of total requirements coefficients. You may also find our Notes on Input-Output Analysis and our Notes on Structural Changeof interest. If you download and use any of these documents (all three have been written using Microsoft Word version 6.0) - and we hope that you will find them useful in your teaching - please be sure to acknowledge the source (ABS and the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne).

Robert Barro of Harvard University has kindly given us permission to make available an Excel file which contains the data set used in his famous 1991 QJE article "Economic growth in a cross section of countries". An Excel SpreadSheet containing data on 85 socio-economic variables for 118 countries is available for you to download as is a Word v6 Readme Document which contains information on the codes used and the sources of the raw data.

You may also enjoy reading some Economics Jokes and the Australian Government's Budget Papers.

If you are interested in looking for more data sets and other resources of interest to Economists we suggest you might also go to Economics Resources on the Internet.