Dictionaries and Educational Resources
Gateways and Portals
General Sources
Indexes
Journals
Professional Organizations
Research Institutes
Statistical Sources
Topical Sources
Working Papers and Online Texts
BizEd -- Economics Materials
Variety of educational materials and tutorials from the British Website BizEd.
Encyclopedia of American Economic History (Reference HC 103 .E52)
3 volume encyclopedia of topical essays with bibliographies.
Dictionary of Economics (Reference HB 61 .B33 2003)
The Economist Guide to Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Economics. (Reference HC 29 .E28 2003)
An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics (Reference HB 99.7 .E528 1997)
Encyclopedia of Political Economy (Reference HB 61 .E554 1999)
FED101
Maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, offers information on the history, structure, policies, and services of the Federal Reserve.
A Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
A glossary of 213 basic economic terms.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Reference K 487 .E3 N48 1998)
Online Glossary of Research Economics
A browsable, searchable glossary by economics professor Peter B. Meyer of Northwestern University. To browse, select the Downloadable Contents option.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 5 v. (Reference HC 15 .O94 2003)
The WashingtonPost.com Business Glossary
Glossary features brief definitions of many business terms. Free registration required.
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Academic Info - Economics
A guide to electronic resources worldwide on all aspects of economics.
ARGMAX: Economics News, Data, and Analysis.
Blog, news, links, glossary, and more provided by economist John Irons, Ph.D. MIT.
B & E DataLinks: econ & financial data sources.
Guide to electronic sources provided by the American Statistical Association.
A Bibliography of General Histories of Economics, 1692-1975. (Reference Z 7164 .E2 H68 - Floor 4)
Development Economics
Milner Library Web page listing development economics resources.
Economic & Business Geography Resources & Reading Lists
University of Washington geography professor Gunter Krumme offers a bibliography of news briefs, book recommendations, and other resources from the WWW for economic and business geography.
Finance and Economics
A guide to resources from Rutgers University Libraries.
FINWeb
Financial Economics Web Server lists resources providing economics and finance information.
Internet Business Webliography: Economics and Statistics
The Webliography is an online guide to electronic resources prepared by the librarians at Louisiana State University. The economics section contains links to Federal Reserve sites, organizations, journals and scholarly publications, statistics, and working papers of interest to economists.
Internet Resources in Business & Economics
A guide to electronic resources from the University of California at Berkeley.
Labour Economics Gateway
Created and maintained by Jacques Brosius, a PhD candidate in economics at The Center for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies in Luxenbourg, LEG includes a list of economists and their homepages, research centers, discussion forums, conference calls, and a broad collection of online working papers, books, and articles.
Resources for Economists on the Internet
Wide ranging list of resources. Originated by Bill Goffe, it is now supported by the American Economic Association.
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The Congressional Budget Office
Provides the texts of testimony before Congress and papers released by the office.
Economic Report of the President
A direct link to the annual Economic Report of the President.
Economic Statistics Briefing Room
This White House briefing room provides a summary chart and overview statistics with links to detailed data on each of six areas: gross domestic purchases prices, consumer price index, producer price index, prices received by farmers, prices paid by farmers, and crude oil prices.
Fed in Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research
A database of federal reserve economic research maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Related sites include:
ALFRED
Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data provides access to older data.
The Beige Book, summary commentary on economic conditions by Federal Reserve district, published 8 times a year.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System site.
FED101, an educational site, maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, offering information on the history, structure, policies, and services of the Federal Reserve.
Economic Data - FRED, a source of statistical data maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Handbook of Economic and Financial Measures (Reference HB 137 .H36)
In-depth explanations of the background, construction, and uses of measures of economic activity most frequently used in business reporting. Old, but still useful.
National Bureau of Economic Research
A private, nonprofit research organization offering citations and abstracts of research and access to data and analysis from NBER and other sources.
NetEc
Another mega-site, NetEc is an international academic resource to improve electronic economic communications, including printed working papers in BibEc, electronic working papers in WoPEc, web resources in WebEc, and even jokes about economics and economists in JokEc. The site is no longer being updated.
Roubini Global Economics Service - RGE Monitor
Maintained by a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, this site has an international focus and provides information on current macroeconomic and financial policy topics.
2006 Index of Economic Freedom
A database providing detailed information about economic policy for 161 countries provided by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal.
USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System
The system contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. International in scope, most reports are text files that contain time-sensitive information. Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly.
World Economic Forum
An independent international organization providing a wide range of data in the Knowledge Navigator section of their web site.
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Milner Library electronic journal subscriptions include over one hundred economics journals. Use an index to identify articles and then use Find It to link to full text for the article, or use Citation Linker: Journals to locate and access full text for the journal.
Selected journals are accessible directly from their publishers or from lists, such as:
Directory of Open Access Journals: Business and Economics, Economics
Provides links to 43 journals on economics and development economics.
Economic Journals on the Web
Journal Related Information in Economics
WebEc listing of links to lists of economics journals available through the web. No longer being updated, but dead links are removed periodically.
MLR: The Editor's Desk -- BLS
Goes beyond the print Monthly Labor Review by providing additional economic news, analyses of BLS data, and links to research reports.
NBER Publications
The Pulse of Capitalism
Quarterly Internet newsletter on economic indicators and analysis from the Commonwealth Institute.
Guides to Journals
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Economics and Finance (Reference HB 63 .C22 9th ed. 2004/2005)
Magazines for Libraries (Reference Z 6941 .M23 14th ed. - Floor 2)
See especially the chapters: Economics (pp.346-362) and Business (pp.188-208).
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American Economic Association
Econometric Society
History of Economics Society
National Association of Business Economists
Society of Labor Economists
Western Economic Association International
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Brookings Institution
EDIRC World
Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA)
Joint Center for Poverty Research
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Agribusiness Online
Provides price data, trade statistics and regulations and market research data for agricultural commodities.
Data and Program Library Service (UW-Madison): The Survey of Economic Expectations -- Waves 1-8
Provides data from the University's survey, involving 5,423 interviews conducted in eight waves, examining how Americans in the labor force perceive their near-term economic future.
The Euro Homepage
A guide to resources on European monetary policy and the European Monetary Union (EMU), created by Giancarlo Corsetti, of Yale University's Economics Department.
The International Monetary Fund
The IMF site includes press releases for the past three years, fulltext issues of the fortnightly IMF Survey for the current year, and lists of publications.
Web Features -- Economic Policy Institute
A consumer site featuring public opinion data, the site provides graphs and charts to highlight an economic issue each week.
The World Bank
Of special interest are the Topics and Countries sections. The country briefs provide a good overview of the economic situation and trends in each country.
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Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics
Ohio State University's research center for financial economics hosts the Dice Working Paper Series in fulltext (1995-present).
EconPapers
Provides citations for thousands of printed working papers. The papers are not available online, but many can be ordered from their sources. BibEc uses the RePEc database.
Economic Sociology Editorial Series
A collection of editorials written by academics covering a range of topics including globalization, immigration, and the future of economic sociology.
Institute for International Economics Working Papers
Indexes the working papers from this Washington based research institution, and provides full-text online for many.
The Library of Economics and Liberty
Compilation of works by important economists sponsored by the Liberty Fund. All recognize the sanctity of the individual and regard personal liberty and freedom of action as the necessary ingredients for human progress.
McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Full and partial texts of works by scholarly economists made available by McMaster University of Hamilton, Ontario's Economics Department.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Provides citations for thousands of working papers and articles, many of which are available online from links on this site.
Technical Reports and Working Papers in Business and Economics
The Library of Congress provides links to online copies of reports from research institutions worldwide.
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