Economics handbooks are handbooks on subjects of economics. Such handbooks range in audience from the general reader to the advanced student and professional economist.

Economics handbooks that form a series include, but are not limited to, the following:

Other economics handbooks, whether general or specialized, may come from publishers as part of a series beyond extending economics or on ad hoc basis.

A Google Scholar "economics handbook" search indexes the range of topics treated, as does a New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online article search by topics, using the JEL classification codes.

The textbook approach to teaching economics has been criticised by many as a problematic way of passing on knowledge because students gain the impression that textbooks present a true and uncontested version of economics. In contrast, what organizations that are active in economics education such as Rethinking Economics pledge for is to expose students to various schools of economic thought and provide them with the analytical tools to critically compare and evaluate them.