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General Economics Information Sites
The first section includes Bill Goffe's current hypertext guide with links
to economic information on the Internet, plus a number of the major
sites for economics information and data.
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Resources for Economists on the Internet by Goffe
Bill Goffe's current hypertext guide has links to all known
economic information on the Internet. To use this guide,
click on the site or type of information you want. The first click takes you
to a section of the Goffe document that describes this site. Within or
following his description, there is a link to the site itself. Thus you
can go to any economics location from the Goffe pages. Goffe also describes
the economics listserv discussion groups on the Internet (PolEcon, Femecon,
Tch-econ, Econ-ed, etc.), along with the addresses to join. (Listservs are e-mail
discussion groups that require signing on with an e-mail address to participate.)
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St. Louis Federal Reserve Data Base FRED
This database has lots of data, including indexes for GDP data, price data, employment data, financial and monetary data, exchange rate and regional data.
•Federal Reserve Information and Data from Woodrow
Woodrow, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis website, offers information
about the Federal Reserve and the economy, including the entire Beige Book; selected
national and regional data, including data on Ninth District banks; text of
publications; economic
education materials; connection to its Research Department and information about bank
supervision and regulation. Check out "Tracking the Economy" page and the charts from that page!
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Economic Report of the President
The 1996 and 1997 Economic Report of the President, searchable.
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Economic Report of the President, Selected Tables 1995
Selected tables from the Economic Report of the President, 1995, can be viewed in tabular form. To access data files for use in spreadsheet applications, note the data file name given in the table heading, and retrieve from the statistics directory.
Or click here for an Acrobat file of all tables(440 KB): ERPS.PDF
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EconData.Net
EconData.Net focuses on regional economic activity on the Web. They have
more than 350 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the
Web's premiere data collections, and their own list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic
data.
- • FERRET Census, BLS, and other data
Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool. Tool developed and supported by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in collaboration with the Bureau of Labor Statistics and
other statistical agencies. Data from these surveys are available:
Current Population Survey (CPS), Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP),
1993 National Health Interview Survey.
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Social Science Information Gateway Gopher
Worldwide Social Science Resources and U.K. based resources are both provided here. This is a searchable (by keyword) gateway for social science topics.
 The Cents Financial Journal
The Cents Financial Journal: An electronic financial journal featuring Wall Street's finest analysts, strategists, and
economists. Participating companies include Moody's, Nikko, and Banc One. Updated every day, always free.
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Government Printing Office
List of documents available from gov printing office, some online.
- •Nebrask@ On Line.
Economy-wide, Macro, and Employment
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St. Louis Federal Reserve Data Base FRED
This database has lots of data in convenient form: indexes for GDP data, price data, employment data, financial and monetary data, exchange rate and regional data.
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Economics statistics briefing room
Great fast source for up-to-date information on what is going on at the White House, Washington, DC.
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Economagic
Economagic (Ted Bos) has over 100,000 series, the ability to modify series, run regressions on-line, chart the given or modified series, and has over 8,500 series in excel format. The intent of is to be a one-stop shop for freely available economic time series data.
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Council of Economic Advisors.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics public database provides a huge amount of current and historical data for labor market, prices, and related conditions, and press releases. Also the source for CPI press release.
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Department of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis
This page provides links to summary BEA data and to articles
based on the data:
National programs--including the national income and product accounts (GDP, personal income, etc.) and gross product by industry, international programs--including balance of payments accounts, U.S. direct investment abroad, and foreign direct investment in the United States, and regional programs--including State personal income.
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Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
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Bertelsmann Foundation
International rankings of employment across countries
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Dismal Scientist
Most current leading economic indicators, date of next release, analysis, and monthly figures for previous year
Includes consumer credit and confidence, prices, savings, housing starts, durable goods orders
Links to original government sources of the indicators
Forecasts of economic indicators for next two years (e.g. expected consumer price index)
130 business, demographic, labor, income, real estate, and vital statistics variables for states.
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The Conference Board's Business Cycle Indicators Web Site
Business Cycle Indicators are available by subscription, but the leading indicator data and chart are free. Go to the home page (above) or the overview
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US Business Cycle Indicators
This server presents a set of 256 data series commonly known as the US Business Cycle Indicators from the BEA for tracking and predicting US business activity, mostly monthly (few quarterly) and mostly complete from 1948 to 1995. You can chart the data for no charge. A subscription is necessary to acquire series of the actual numbers.
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FedWorld Information Network
FedWorld is the U.S. Government online information source, introduced by National Technical Information Service (NTIS). According to its description, "It provides a comprehensive central access point for locating and acquiring government information. The goal of NTIS FedWorld is to provide a one-stop location for the public to locate, order and have delivered to them, U.S. Government information."
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Fair Econometric Model
Use the Fair Model FREE on line. Examine historical episodes, change government policy variables and examine the estimated effects of the changes. A resource for business forecasters, government policy analysts, macroeconomic researchers, teachers, and students. Currently featured: Forecast of the 2000 presidential election (see Presidential Vote Equation); forecast of US economy (see US model-Forecast Memo).
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Data links from USCD
Searchable source for lots of economic data
International
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Penn World Tables
Penn World Tables from NBER (Heston and Summers)
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Penn World Tables
Penn World Tables and other international data from EPAS at University of Toronto (Heston and Summers)
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The OECD Website
Information about all of the countries that belong to the OECD.
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World Bank Group
News and Information about bank activities, Publications (full-text searchable), topics in development, country-specific information
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NBER Macro-Economic History Database
NBER WAIS searchable database. Select "Online Data" and then NBER
Macro-Economic History Database, Penn World Tables, or Business Cycle
Dating Information. The History Database data are stored in the Micro-TSP .DB format.
This is ASCII and individual series are easily edited into other forms.
Documentation for each series is stored with the series itself.
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Global Financial Data
Extensive, long-term historical indices on stock markets, interest rates, exchange rates and
inflation rates. Database provides historical data on over 50 countries and goes back to the 1690s. Exchange rates of all national currencies are presented in terms of
the U.S. dollar. You can also change the basis from the U.S. dollar to another currency of your choice.
- • See these exchange rate currency converters:
- Currency Converter
- The Universal Currency Converter
- Bloomberg Currency Converter
At these Web sites the exchange rates of currencies are presented in terms of
the currency you choose.
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Global Risk Assessments, Inc. Hotlinks
International business information and intelligence service corporation providing * research * consulting * publishing * training * plus links to other websites for doing research in the
field of international business and economics, including political
risk, and also international affairs.
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World Bank WWW Server
The World Bank Home Page has information about the Bank activities in various countries around the world. Also includes a
Growth Research Web Site and data for downloading.
- •CHASS Data
Source for Canadian data (census, economics data) and Penn World Tables
Government Budgets and Debt
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On-line National Federal Budget Simulator--try your hand at balancing the budget
This is a creative and interactive page presented by UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research (CCER). A new on-line National Federal Budget Simulator lets anyone on the World Wide Web attempt to balance the budget. Your choices and the actual budget can be shown graphically also.
- • Deficits, the National Debt, and Economic Growth
This website emphasizes the importance of economic growth and seeks to dispel some myths about deficits.
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Federal Budget Java Site by Kowal Design
Contains a simple, neat, point-and-click presentation
of the entire Federal budget. To explore the budget, click the button. When downloading is complete (buttons take a few minutes), explore choices to balance the Federal budget. Find solutions to reduce the
National Debt. Learn how Federal budget dollars are spent on Education,
Health Care, Defense, and the Environment.
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Concord Coalition on
National Debt
The Concord Coalition is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to eliminating federal budget deficits and ensuring Social Security, Medicare, and
Medicaid are secure for all generations. Has lots of information on the budget and debt.
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A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget
A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget, including the budget fiscal year 1996, discussion of
deficits and debt, deficity reduction, and an historical budget summary. Text document.
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On-line National Federal Budget Simulator
This is a creative and interactive page presented by UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research (CCER). A new on-line National Federal Budget Simulator lets anyone on the World Wide Web attempt to balance the budget. Your choices and the actual budget can be shown graphically also.
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Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in the UK:
Virtual Economy
At the heart of the UK Virtual Economy are
sophisticated computer models which are very similar to those the
Chancellor and his advisors use to prepare the Budget and to keep the
economy on track.
- •Citizens for Budget Reform
CBR was established by a group of taxpayers to arm citizens with knowledge to attack government program failure and to promote economic, political, and social growth.
Money and Finance
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"Woodrow" web at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Data plus all kinds of good ideas and curriculum materials for teaching economics!
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Banking information, job opportunities, news and publications, research, and statistical information.
- •Central Banking Resource Center
The Internet's most complete directory of central bank sites from all over the world. Gives links for central banks sites alphabetically by country.
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Educational Resources in Finance
This page references online finance courses, multimedia & software, downloadable slides, textbooks, bookstores, articles, simulators &
games and information on publishers. From Ohio State University
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
The CME is the first futures and options exchange on the World Wide Web. Here you can find daily settlement prices of all CME futures and options, marketing page with product information, educational programs, and more.
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Finance and Economics Center
More than 300 links to finance and economics departments, more than 200 statistical and data agencies, more than 100 links to stock exchanges, 120 links to central banks, online quotes, currency converter, etc.
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Stocks, Mutual Funds, Company Information
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Security APL Information on Stocks and Stock Quotes
Quote.com
Free quotes (just type in the ticker symbol of the stock you are interested in). Also found here are investment tools and the current NASDAQ Composite Index data.
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Graphs of stocks
This site has nice graphs of price and volume of stock market outcomes.
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Fortune Magazine Online
Access to extensive and searchable information about stocks and other investments.
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Hoovers company profiles
HOOVER'S BUSINESS PROFILES gives you comprehensive profiles of over 1,000 major companies, including company history,
CEO background, primary competitors and annual financials. Links to descriptions of
largest 100 firms.
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Dun and Bradstreet
Dun and Bradstreet also sponsors a site for companies on line at Companies Online. Here you can search for a particular company or browse by industry.
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Standard and Poor's News Service
S&P News focuses on the activities of 6,500 of the most actively traded
public companies. Coverage concentrates on announcements that impact
existing securities or that involve the issuance of new securities (by subscription and monthly fee only).
- Invest Smart
The MyStocks page is the one-stop place where you can trade stocks with virtual money. The Global Stock Game (GSG) is the world's most realistic stock market simulation, where you can have fun and learn the stock market at no cost. Yes, it is 100% FREE.
- •BigCharts
A comprehensive and easy-to-use online charting service,
giving you FREE and UNLIMITED access to charts, reports, indicators and
quotes on US stocks, mutual funds and major market indices.
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U.S. Business Advisor
The U.S. Business Advisor exists to provide business with one-stop access to federal government information, services, and
transactions. Their goal is to make the relationship between business and government more productive.
- Invest Smart
The MyStocks page is the one-stop place where you can trade stocks with virtual money. The Global Stock Game (GSG) is the world's most realistic stock market simulation, where you can have fun and learn the stock market at no cost. Yes, it is 100% FREE.
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Graphs of stocks
This site has nice graphs of price and volume of stock market outcomes.
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Standard and Poor
S & P Personal Wealth Web Site
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Virtual Stock Exchange
Welcome to Virtual Stock Exchange, a free stock market game from MarketWatch.
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Free Virtual Trade
Get your feet wet before you take the plunge. Virtual Trade lets you use the optionsXpress account screens, tools and resources to gain trading experience and test strategies without putting any money on the line.
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Edustock
Edustock is an educational web page designed to teach young and old alike, what the stock market is, and how it can work for them. It includes tutorials on the stock market and how to pick good stocks. It also provides information on a select group of companies to help you start your research into what stock is going to make your fortune.
Personal Finance
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National Institute for Consumer Education
National Institute for Consumer Education (NICE)
A site for educational materials, research reports, and links relating to consumer education. The institute promotes consumer education as a resource clearinghouse and a research and training center.
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Personal Finance Information
Covers these topics: Banking, Bonds, Brokers, Buying a House, Consumer Tips,
Credit Cards, Insurance, International, Investing,
Magazines, Mutual Funds, Options, Retirement, Stock,
Quotes, Taxes, and Technical Analysis.
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MSN Money
Has a useful personal finance section.
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InvestorsGuide: Personal Finance
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Investor Protection Trust
The Investor Protection Trust provides independent, objective information to help consumers make informed investment decisions.
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National Financial Services Personal Finance
National Financial Services Network Personal Finance has information about loans (home, car, education), consumer credit, insurance, securities, savings accounts, electronic banking, and personal Finance Software. Also searches for best rates by state.
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Investment Glossary
Large and very comprehensive glossary of investor words.
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US Securities and Exchange
What Every Investor Should Know (from the US Securites and Exchange Commission).
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Yahoo Finance and Investment
Yahoo Finance and Investment References and Guides.
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Kiplinger Online
Kiplinger Online calculators for financial decisions. Take a look at the page for college financing, too!.
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Basics of Investing
A guide for educators from Nasdaq and NICE: financial decisions, how markets work, investment choices, etc. Also includes lessons for educators to use.
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Small Business Entrepreneurs
The purpose of this web site is to provide
would-be and start-up entrepreneurs with some handy
tools and resources to make the task of planning and
starting a small business easier. This site has also been
designed for the purpose of promoting small business
information and planning electronic guidebooks.
Population and Places
- Department of Commerce and Bureau of Economics and Statistics Web
- Information on economic, business, and social/environmental program
data from over 50 Federal source, and
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) (domestic, international,
and regional economic accounts).
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U. S. Bureau of the Census Home Page
- This server provides a huge amount of information on population, households, economic indicators, sectors in the economy, Statistical Abstracts, and much more.
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Demographic Profiles of US States, Cities, Towns
Demographic Profiles of Cities and States are available for states, metro areas, counties, and cities.
Government and Political
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Whitehouse Online
The White House Web site provides text of releases on economic policy, environmental policy, foreign affairs, jobs, healthcare, science and technology, and other current news items.
The speeches of the president, proposed budget for 1996 are also on this site.
- • THOMAS: Library of Congress Legislative Information on the Internet
The Library of Congress Web site provides the full text of legislation for House and Senate bills searchable by keywords or bill number, the full text of the Congressional Record, daily accounts of proceedings on House and Senate floors, and the text of How Our Laws Are Made by Edward F. Willett, Jr., House Law Revision Counsel. More generally, the Library of Congress Web pages also provide historical collections and descriptions of some
of the Library’s special collections, and several exhibits. Also very useful is LOCIS, the Library of Congress Information System, which is searchable by keywords.
Environmental Economic Information
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EnviroLink, "the largest online environmental information resource on the planet."
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WWW Virtual Library -Environment
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United Nations Environment Programme.
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Webdirectory, "Earth's Biggest Environment Search Engine"
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Larry Schankman's Environment and Ecology
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EarthIsland
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Environment Australia.
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Natural Resources Management and Policy.
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Environment/Fish and Wildlife Group.
Economics Journals, Economists Directories, Working Papers
This section includes information about pre-prints and working papers, other Departments of Economics,
directories of economists, economics journals, library resources,
and the JEL article classification system.
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American Economics Association
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EconLit
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AEA Committee on Economic Education
- •Econ-WP
Economics Working Papers Archive at Washington University (Bob Parks)
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NBER National Bureau of Economic Research
Search Working Papers by Keyword
Source for Penn World Tables
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WebEc: Economics on the World Wide Web
WebEc was an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW. WebEc and RFE comprised the WWW Virtual Library in Economics. You may browse WebEc contents or you can search. More information about WebEc is availabl
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Economists with Web Pages
This site also lists and links web sites and home pages by economists' names.
Run by John Irons. Add your name via a form on the page.
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ECONbase from Elsevier
Full texts of many economics and finance journals directly accessible on-line.
- •EDIRC:
Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers
Christian Zimmerman's extensive index of economics institutions on the WWW.
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E-JOE European Job Openings for Economists
- •American
Economics Association Directory of Members
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Directory of Ph.D. programs in Economics
This directory is based on the list of all Ph.D. programs in
Economics (U.S. and Canada) in Peterson's Guide, and provides links
to nearly all of them.
- •WebEc Journals List
Comprehensive list of economics journals on the web from Helsinki.
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Journal of Economic Education Web
This is the home page of the leading journal focusing on economic education. Along with information about submission and subscription, tables of content are provided to assist you to find the topic of interest. This journal is also a leader in providing published papers online.
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Feminist Economics
Feminist Economics is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an open forum for dialogue and debate about feminist economic perspectives.
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Research in Economic Education Database
Searchable database for researchers in economic education maintained by William Walstad at the National Center for Research in Economic Education at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Review of Economics Software
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History of Economics Society
Since its formal establishment in 1974, the History of Economics Society has committed itself to encouraging interest, fostering scholarship, and promoting discussion among scholars and professionals in the field of the history of economics.
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Law and Economics on the Internet
Source of information and links on Law and Economics, from Tim Stanley at Stanford.
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Economic Growth Resources
A guide to economic growth resources--data, literature, working papers, etc.--on the Internet. From Jonathan Temple, Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University.
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Hal Varian's Economics WWW Server at UC-Berkeley
Varian's research papers on the information economy, plus links to pages on finance, economic information, etc. Or go directly to The Information
Economy for "The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods,
Intellectual Property and Related Issues."
- •Classroom Expernomics Web Site
A web site based on the
newsletter, Classroom Expernomics. Expernomics is a bi-annual newsletter
devoted to the classroom applications of experimental economics. By Greg Delemeester,
Marietta College, and John Neral, Frostburg State
- •Experimental Economics, University of Arizona.
Economic Science Laboratory, College of Business and Public Administration, at the University of
Arizona. This World Wide Web server contains information related to the field of experimental economics in both
research and teaching applications, including data and free software for teaching economics
using experimental economics.
- Teaching Heterodox Economics
- To encourage and support pluralism in the teaching and learning of economics in UK universities, and to encourage and support the teaching and learning of heterodox economics in UK universities.
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Antitrust Information
An on-line resource for antitrust information linking economic research, policy, and cases. Contributions to the
page are also possible.
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WoPEc bibliographic database of working papers
on the Internet
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Social Studies Online
NCSS Online features information and news for social studies educators in the United States and internationally.
- •Directory of Electronic Journals,
Newsletters, Academic Discussion Lists.
A Variety of Opinions about Economic Issues
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Cato Institute
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Adam Smith Foundation
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Centre for Independent Studies (Australia/New Zealand)
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Foundation for Economic Education
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Atlas Economic Research Foundation
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Institute of Economic Affairs
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Levy Institute
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The American Prospect
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Informal Communism Discussion
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Leftist & 'Progressive' Internet Resources Directory
And now for something completely different.....
- •Jokes about economists-JokEc.
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