Dr. T's EconLinks.com -
Portal to economics, business, and finance sources on the web
; information is accessible through a site search engine or
by browing the index tables [Reviewed]
EconLinks -
Developed by an economics professor at North Carolina A&T
State University to provide easy access to basic economic and
financial information for students in economics and business
courses [Reviewed]
Mansfield University
Economics Resources - Collection of Economics' resources
on the Internet, created and maintained by Larry Shankman,
Government Documents Librarian at Mansfield University of
Pennsylvania.
Web Resources
for International Economics & Business - Provides international
coverage of trade, finance, development, trade law, business,
accounting, management, marketing, economics, and reference
sources [Reviewed]
WebEc: World
Wide Web Resources in Economics - Effort to categorize
free information in economics on the WWW ; includes links
on International Economics, Public Economics, Business Economics,
Economic History and much more
GENERAL INFORMATION
Academic
Consortium on International Trade (ACIT) Anti-Sweatshop Letter -
Includes text of the letter sent by ACIT economists to University
Presidents on September 25, 2000 regarding anti-sweatshop
campaigns ; also provides background documents, press coverage,
websites of organizations monitoring labor standards, University
sweatshoop sites, company human rights sites, and labor rights
sites
American Economic
Association - Founded in 1885, the AEA has a membership
of approximately 22,000 economists ; membership directory
is searchable
BizEd - A business and
economics service for students, teachers and lecturers ; sections
include an Internet Catalogue, which aims to provide a trusted
source of selected, high quality Internet information for students,
researchers and practitioners in the areas of business, management
and economics, Learning Materials, Data, Company Facts, and
Virtual Worlds, large scale learning resources ; specials areas
of note include:
Between
the Sheets - Looks at the use of spreadsheets in economics
; includes help and advice on using spreadsheets and a variety
of downloadable spreadsheets on various topics [Reviewed]
Question
Bank: Economics - Interactive collection of multiple
choice questions on economics topics ; includes questions
on markets, wages, national income, money, unemployment and
inflation, and the U.S. and international economies [Reviewed]
Classification
of American Wealth - Online book being presently written
by Drew Caradine Shouter (pseudonym) who has been studying
the subject of wealth accumulation and society in America
for many years ; includes pages on Manor Lords, Planters/Aristocrats,
Shipping Merchants, New York City Landlords, and Early Industrialists [Reviewed]
Climate
Indices for the Economy - Established at the National
Climatic Data Center (NCDC) to enhance the understanding
of weather and climate's effects on socioeconomic sectors
of the United States ; climatic factors such as temperature,
rainfall, snowfall, cloudiness and winds have a significant
impact on many aspects of the nation's economy as well as
human health and quality of life ; weather is often used
to explain seasonal and year-to-year changes in economic
performance, but the explanations are often subjective and
many times based on perceptions rather than clear observational
evidence [Reviewed]
Commanding
Heights : the Battle for the World Economy - Complementing
the PBS 3-part, 6-hour documentary series, the purpose of
the site is to promote better understanding of globalization,
world trade and economic development, including the forces,
values, events, and ideas that have shaped the present global
economic system [Reviewed]
Development Goals -
Sets targets for reduction in poverty, improvements in health
and education, gender equality, and protection of the environment
; the goals measure progress from 1990 and look to what can
be accomplished by 2015 [Reviewed]
EcEdWeb: Economic Education Web -
Provides support for economic education at all levels, including curricular
materials and web teaching ideas [Reviewed]
EconDash - Uses automobile
dashboard-inspired charts to understand U.S. economic indicators,
including growth per capita, CPI, and national expenditures
; each indicator is presented visually on a dashboard meter,
users can click on the meters to get further information [Reviewed]
Econometric
Institute - Home page of the Econometric Institute at
the Faculty of Economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam
in The Netherlands ; links to departments, conferences, newslists,
journals, software
Economic
Growth Resources - Contains resources and data on economic
growth, including papers, journals, surveys and data sets [Reviewed]
Economic History Services -
Includes book reviews, course syllabi, directors and a section
entitled: Ask the Professor
Economic Reporting
Review - Provides weekly analysis of the economic reporting
in the New York Times and the Washington Post ; written
by Dean Baker, an economist and the co-director of the Center
for Economics and Policy Research (CEPR) ; joint project
of CEPR and the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR),
a media watchdog group that reports on bias and censorship
in the media [Reviewed]
Economic
Sociology Editorial Series - First published by academics
for the Economic-Sociology electronic mailing list, editorials
cover a range of topics, including globalization, immigration,
and the future of economic sociology [Reviewed]
Economics
Research Network - Sponsored by the Social Sciences Research
Network, dedicated to increasing communication among economics
scholars, practitioners, and policymakers throughout the
world ; offers abstracts and full-text from over 25 economic
journals [Reviewed]
Economicssearch.com -
Offers study guides, practice questions, and other academic help
designed specifically for beginning Economics students, articles
written by selected economists about current economic news and
events, and categorized links to economics resources [Reviewed]
Economist - Full text
of selected articles from The Economist ; includes a
reference collection of country
briefings, which includes economic data, forcasts, background
information, statistics, news, and more [Reviewed]
Economy.com - Network
of sites providing pre-formatted data on a variety of indicators,
historical time series, forecast and industry service data
; includes some material available only by subscription, but
other materials are freely available including FreeLunch, a
database of economic, industry, financial, and demographic
data freely accessible for download [Reviewed]
Electronic
Statistics Textbook - Downloadable, full-text textook,
developed at the StatSoft Software Company, based on many
years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses
; offers training in the understanding and application of
statistics [Reviewed]
Gender
Issues in Economics - Drexel Library's 'Good Web Sites'
for web links to sites primarily concerned with women's studies,
women's issues, or gender issues in Economics
Global Macroeconomic
and Financial Policy Site - Created by a professor at
New York University, includes readings of macroeconomic and
financial policy, financial news, op-ed pieces, economic
reports, speeches, academic papers and current currency exchanges
Handbook
of Econometrics - Full-text online book which aims to
serve as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for
the field of econometrics, the branch of economics concerned
with the empirical estimation of economic relationships
Inequality.org -
Network of journalists, writers, and researchers trying to
look beyond conventional economics and its notions of prosperity
and progress ; features news and analysis of the economic and
cultural ramifications of the divide between the haves and
the have-nots in the United States ; includes economic statistics
and recent news stories [Reviewed]
Inomics - Internet
service especially tailored to the needs of economists ; advertisies
job openings for economists, provides conference announcements,
a human-edited directory as well as a search engine for economic
information ; most of the web pages indexed and catalogued
a re home pages of economists as well as information from economics
departments, international organizations and research institutions [Reviewed]
Internet
Economist - A "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet
information skills for economists ; covers the key information
skills for the Internet environment to help with your coursework,
literature searching, teaching or research [Reviewed]
Jubilee : Supporting
Economic Justice Campaigns Worldwide - Began as
an international movement in over 65 countries advocating
a debt-free start to the Millennium for developing nations
by calling for a one-off cancellation of the unpayable debts
of the world's poorest countries by the end of the year 2000
; now the coalition supports economic justic campaigns worldwide
by providing up-to-date, accurate analyses, news and data
on international debt and finance; and generating and airing
new ideas and debates on debt and globalisation
The Library of Economics
and Liberty - Provided by Liberty Fund, Inc. to encourage
the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible
individuals ; site features authoritative editions of classics
in economics, and related works in history, political theory,
and philosophy, articles, including follow-up Letters to
the Editor, links to commonly-used economics databases, and
reading lists and annotated bibliographies [Reviewed]
Livelihoods Connect -
Created by the Department for International Development, the
British government agency esponsible for promoting economic
development and reducing poverty ; provides information resources
on creating sustainable livelihoods to eliminate poverty [Reviewed]
McMaster
University Archive for the History of Economic Thought -
Represents an attempt to gather all material for the study
of the history of economics at one site ; includes both primary
texts, studies of those texts and of their authors [Reviewed]NetEc -
Contains information on printed working papers (BibEc),
links to full-text working papers (WoPEc), and the code
for Economics and Econometrics (CodEc)
Nobel e-Museum - Official
site of the Nobel Foundation ; offers information on the various
awards, including the Nobel Prize for Economics, past Laureates,
including the original press releases, biographical information,
photos, videos, and more [Reviewed]
Pennsylvania
Economic Association - Official site of the PEA ; provides
membership, conference, and journal information for the Association
The Short Run -
Economics news and information site named for the economic
principle that "...this 'long run' is a misleading guide to
currentaffairs. In the long run we are all dead" ; features
news, articles, reviews, economic indicators, and stock information [Reviewed]
Sustainable Development
Online - Sponsored by the European Foundation for the
Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, sustainable
development is the achievement of continued economic and
social development without detriment to the environment and
naturalresources ; specifically designed to support the needs
of the social partners at all levels in their activities
to promote sustainable development from a practical company
level to a policy level [Reviewed]
GLOSSARIES
Glossary
of Political Economy Terms - Online edition of A
Glossary of Political Economy Terms by Dr. Paul M. Johnson
of Auburn University ; includes definitions of terms relevant
to the study of a political economy, including capitalism,
communism, market economy, tariff, supply and demand and
many more [Reviewed]
Internet
Glossary of Statistical Terms - Written by a professor
at Bryn Mawr College, uses text and graphics to offer definitions
of statistical terms in either alphabetical order or in "suggested
learning order" [Reviewed]
Online Glossary
of Research Economics - Searchable glossary of over 1,000
research economic terms ; includes terms from economics research
journals, terms from mathematics, statistics, sociology,
and abbreviations of government agencies ; created by Peter
Meyer of the Economics Department at Northwestern University [Reviewed]
MONEY
Current
Value of Old Money - Provides sources to help answer
the question "how much would a specified amount of money
at a certain period of time be worth today?" ; sources include
data tables, research papers, historical exchange rates,
and prices in ancient Rome [Reviewed]
Money - Online exhibit from The British Museum offers a look into the world of money ; sections include: What is Money?, History of Money, Saving Money, How Money is Made, Money and Society, and Studying Money [Reviewed]
Money--Past,
Present & Future - Covers the history of money and
monetary policy, including sections on the chronology of
money, the politics of money, and financial scandals and
frauds [Reviewed]
Money : What it is and
How it Works - Collection provides information on the
basics of understanding money and monetary policy issues
; includes articles by famous economists, information
on the Federal Reserve System, inflation, national debt,
investing, credit and much more [Reviewed]
Time
Value of Money - Created by a professor at the University
of Tennessee, presents a tutorial on the time value of money,
offering basic concepts on compound interest, annuities, cash
flow, and bond valuation (Requires Microsoft
PowerPoint )[Reviewed]
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Ameristat - Developed by
the Population Reference Bureau to give instant summaries — in
graphics and text — of the demographic characteristics
of the U.S. population, including labor force and employment,
income and poverty, race and ethnicity, children, and migration [Reviewed]
American Antitrust Institute - Online resource
linking antitrust case documents, enforcement guidelines, economic
bibliographies, and current antitrust issues in the news [Reviewed]
Budget of the United States
Government -Main publication includes the annual budget message
of the President, an overview of budget proposals, and an analysis
of the budget in terms of national goals and policies ; supplementary
volumes include historical tables with data on budget receipts,
outlays, surpluses or deficits, and Federal debt
Bureau of Economic Analysis - An agency of
the U.S. Department of Commerce, the BEA prepares estimates that
illuminate key national, international, and regional aspects of
the U.S. economy ; publications include: Survey
of Current Business[Reviewed]
Bureau of Labor Statistics - The BLS, an independent
national statistical agency, is the principal fact-finding agency
for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics
and statistics ; collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates
essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S.Congress,
other Federal agencies, State and localgovernments, business, and
labor ; also serves as a statistical resource to the Department
of Labor ; publications include: Consumer Price Indexes and Monthly Labor Review[Reviewed]
Bureau of the Public Debt
Online - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Treasury,
offers thorough information on the public debt, including daily
calculations and historical debt data back to 1790 ; also includes
information on savings bonds, treasury bills, notes, and government
securities market regulations [Reviewed]
Census Bureau - Provides demographic information
for all regions of the United States
Congressional Budget Office - Provide Congress
with the objective, timely, nonpartisan analyses needed for economic
and budget decisions and with the information and estimates required
for the Congressional budget process
Economic Indicators -
Prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic
Advisers ; contains statistical information on total output, income,
and spending: Employment, Unemployment, and Wages, Production
and Business Activity, Prices, Money, Credit and Security Markets,
Federal Finance, and International Statistics
Economic Report of the President Transmitted
to the Congress - Report from the Executive Branch to the Congress
on the state of the economy ; approximately two-thirds of the narrative
is an analysis of economic issues and conditions ; the remainder
is a collection of over 100 statistical tables that track the most
important economic indicators
export.gov - "The
U.S. Government Export Portal" provides online trade resources
and one-on-one assistance for international business [Reviewed]
Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Current
composite quotations for U.S. Government Securities, including
U.S. Treasury Notes and Bonds, T-bills, CDs, Commercial Paper,
and Federal Funds
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - Information
on economic issues specific to the Third Federal Reserve District
(the eastern two-thirds of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and
Delaware) as well as general economic issues
FINWEB - Provides links to major finance and
economics journals, working paper series, and databases [Reviewed]
FRED - Economic and Financial Database -
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis offers consumers, students, economists,
and financial institutions around the world economic and financial
information in an easy-to-use format ; provides U.S. economic and financial
data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business
indicators, exchange rates, balance of payments, and regional economic
in downloadable files [Reviewed]
The Office of Trade & Economic
Analysis - Provides international trade information, including
US export and import data by country, region, and product, employment,
wages, and investment spending ; an office of theDepartment of Commerce [Reviewed]
Regional Economic Conditions
(RECON) - Designed to assist the FDIC in the examination process
by providing economic information at the state, MSA (Metropolitan
Statistical Area), and county levels ; sing RECON, users are able
to drill down to any state, MSA, or county to view standard graphs,
tables, and maps depicting economic conditions and how they have
changed over time ; contains a 'shopping cart' feature that allows
the user to assemble charts and tables of interest and then print
them together at the end of their session [Reviewed]
Social Science Data Analysis Network - Makes
the latest US census surveys and demographic trends accessible
to educators, policymakers, the media, and students at all levels
[Reviewed]
Statistical Abstract of the United States -
Major statistical source for national data with occasional regional,
state, and local breakdowns ; also functions as a guide to
other sources of statistical information through source notes
Supreme Court
Antitrust Debates - Compilation of 72 Supreme Court opinions
in antitrust, dating from 1895 to 1993, organized into 8 groups: collusion,
monopoly, mergers, vertical relationships, price discriminiation,
patents, professional sports, and antitrust jurisdiction [Reviewed]
CountryReports.org -
Presents up-to-date information on population, geography, economy,
history, and politics for all countries of the world ; includes
audio clips of national anthems and other extras [Reviewed]
Economist - Full text
of selected articles from The Economist ; includes a
reference collection of country
briefings, which includes economic data, forcasts, background
information, statistics, news, and more [Reviewed]
Index
of Economic Freedom - Practical reference guide to the
economies of 161 countries, with detailed information about
economic policy ; created by the Heritage Foundation and
the Wall Street Journal[Reviewed]
International
Economics Study Center - Created by Steve Suranovice
primarily for use by his students in international economics
courses at George Washington University and at the Cornell
in Washington program ; features a web-based international
trade textbook and the International Centre for Trade and
Sustainable Development's Trade News [Reviewed]
International Monetary Fund -
Includes Staff Country Reports, working papers and papers on
policy analysis and assessment, press releases, and news briefs
; publications include: Occasional paper (International
Monetary Fund), World Economic and Financial Surveys and World
Economic Outlook: A Survey by the Staff of the International
Monetary Fund (search by title)
Penn World Tables -
Provides international economic data for 152 countries and
29 subjects
World Bank - Public
information center for the World Bank ; provides extensive
data about every developing country in the world and particular
development topics
Globalization,
Development, and Poverty - Sponsored
by the Panos Institute London (an independent non-governmental
organization working to stimulate open debate on development
issues, and particularly to facilitate access to such debates
by people in developingcountries) and the World Bank Institute,
this e-conference brought together activists, scholars, development
specialists, staff of the World Bank and other international
institutions, the media, NGOs, and others who deal with these
issues on a daily basis for a 4-week conference in
May, 2000 [Reviewed]
PovertyNet -
Includes regional and country level indicators, household
surveys, and poverty analysis tools ; provides resources
for understanding poverty, responding to poverty, and the
interaction between poverty and culture, poverty and health,
and more [Reviewed]
World
Bank Experts - A guide designed to provide reporters
and editors with the names of Bank experts who are available
for comment to the media, including top authorities on
development economics, poverty and human development, public
sector reform, the environment and many other fields. ;
publications include: [Reviewed]
World Development
Report - An annual publication focused on the
economic, social and environmental state of the world
today ; provides in depth analysis of a specific aspect
of development, i.e. the role of the state, transition
economies, labor, infrastructure, health, the environment,
and poverty [Reviewed]
The World Factbook - Central
Intelligence Agency publication covering over 200 countries
and including facts on geography, demographics, government,
economy, etc.
World Population
Information - Compendium and analysis of data on population,
fertility, mortality,contraceptive use and related demographic
topics by the Census Bureau
World Trade Organization (WTO) -
Provides information about WTO activities and policy issues,
including services, intellectual property, environment, development,
trade services, dispute settlement, government procurement,
and research & analysis [Reviewed]
Linda A. Kubala
Web Resources / Reference Librarian
Saint Joseph's University
