Reference Works
AmosWorld Economic Gloss*arama
Searchable database of economics terms and concepts; over 1000 entries.
Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Attempts to gather all material needed for the study of the history of economics in one site; with primary texts, and studies of those texts and their authors, alphabetical by author.
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
From the university of Ghent, Belgium, surveys the law and economic literature and provides Bibliographies, Reviews and some Sources on the Web.
JEL Classification System
Used by the American Economic Association Journal of Economic Literature to organize economic literature; used by some Web sites as well.
Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
From FACSNET; 213 economics terms most encountered by journalists; short (1-2 sentence) definitions.
Macroeconomics Glossary for Students
From the text Principles of Macroeconomics, 2nd edition by John B Taylor, Director of Stanford University Introductory Economic Studies Center; an alphabetical listing.
Online Glossary of Research Economics
From Peter Meyer, Economics Department, Northwestern University; over 1000 definitions; searchable.
Sites
Ag Econ Search
From the University of Minnesota Agricultural Network Information Center; concentrates on agricultural and applied economic resources on the Internet.
Econolink
Billed as the best web sites that have anything to do with Economics; sites are chosen for Content, Research, Journalists, Activists, Students and Innovation. Small but unusual, eclectic list of sites.
EH.NET
Sponsored by a variety of organizations including the Economic History Association, Economic History Society and the History of Economics Society. Contains two parts: Economic History Services and History of Economics; deals with both economic history and the history of economics.
Global Macroeconomics and Financial Policy Site
From Roubini, Stern School of Business, New York University; comprehensive coverage of this sub-area of economics; includes interesting readings, hop topics, current news, and special topics like the Asian Crisis.
Archive for the History of Economic Thought
From McMaster University, Canada significant full text of books in the history of economic thought with representative texts of all major thinkers and schools of though.
Internet Resources for Economists
Compiled by Steve Hackett, Humboldt State University, California; Concentrates on environmental economics, natural resources and ecological economics; alphabetical listing under 13 categories such as Energy Economics, Green Business and Global Warming.
Law and Economics Resources
From FindLaw, searchable including working papers, bibliographies, sites, directories, consultants and outlines.
Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES)
Compiled by the Business Librarian at UNC Charlotte; includes only English language and free sites; includes links to articles, statistics and meta sites; searchable by entire world, region (including NAFTA) and country; official government agency sites are so identified by the country flag.
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Economics
From About.com; searchable site or use assigned subjects, includes recent articles, a newsstand, glossary, discussions and links; has a nice section for beginners.
Economics: World Wide Web Virtual Library
Searches both RFE and WebEc; the premier metasites for economics
Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE)
Edited by Bill Goffe, Department of Economics, SUNY Oswego, lists many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics selected by editors; sponsored by American Economics Association.
WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics
With emphasis on free access materials; by Lauri Saarinen, Helsinki School of Economics; comprehensive listing; affiliated with NetEc.
Inomics
Associated with Amazon.com; a broad site includes job openings, conference announcements, a subject arranged guide and EconSearch, a search engine for web sites related to economics.
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) - Economics
Part of the UK Resource Discovery Network, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council; very international, selective listing; arranged by topic and within topic by type (not the usual approach) such as articles, databases, books, educational materials, journals, organizations, resource guides; longer than usual descriptions of sites.
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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Access all CEPR publications: discussion papers, policy papers, reports, books, bulletins, newsletters, etc.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Source for theory and research in international affairs; 1991-; working papers, journals, books and policy briefs.
Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA)
From the Economic Department of Washington University; with 22 subject areas as well as test posting, meetings, programs and data; uses JEL categories; searches several of the sites listed here.
Federal Reserve Board Working Papers
Finance and Economics Discussion Series, International Finance Discussion Papers and Occasional Staff Studies.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Working Papers
IMF full text of working papers; arranged by year and accession number making it difficult to locate any particular paper; to search go to the Publications Page.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers
Search or browse all papers by topic or JEL classification.
OECD Economic Working Papers
Arranged by year and accession number.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
A database of over 120,000 of working papers, journal articles and other research materials. All material is free. Access to the database is available in a variety of ways.
IDEAS: Internet Documents in Economics Access Service
Complete RePEc database of working papers, journal articles, software components, author information.
NEP: New Economics Papers
Free email notification of new working papers
WoPEc
Full text downloadable working papers and journal articles.
BibEc
Bibliographic information on non-downloadable working papers and journal articles.
Inomics
Downloadable working papers integrated with information on conferences, job information and Internet searching.
Social Science Research Network
Search, browse, and download by JEL classification or topic; abstracts and full text papers in fields of law, economics, finance, accounting and management.
Universities
Look at the web pages of Economics Departments of individual research universities; often they will archive and make available their faculty research papers (i.e. Harvard , Stanford , Rutgers ).
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BLS Handbook of Methods
Explanation of how the Bureau of Labor Statistics obtains and prepares economic data including consumer price index, producer price index, international price index and consumer expenditures; 1997 edition.
Consumer Price Index
Consumer Price Indexes
CPI Home Page from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; includes the CPI Inflation Converter which converts from 1980-2000; historical data from 1913; explanations under FAQ Frequency Asked Questions.
Cost of Living Calculator
Computes cost of living changes from 1913 to the present based on the US CPI.
Historic Consumer Price Index, 1800-1998
From the University of Michigan Documents Center, annual CPI from 1800-1912 from Historical Statistics of the United States, 1913-1998 from BLS.
Inflation Calculator
Input a dollar amount and select years from 1800 to 2000 and it will calculate the value based on the Consumer Price Index.
Inflation Conversion Factors
From Robert Sahr, Oregon State, with factors for converting the value of a dollar at each year since 1800 into current dollars.
What is a Dollar Worth?
From the Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis to calculate value of dollar between any given year with annual consumer price index back to 1913.
Comparative Cost of Living
AACRA Cost of Living Index
From AACRA only national organization representing community research professions; compares cities.
Cost of Living Comparison Calculator
One of several calculators from Bankrate.
Salary Calculator
Compares cost of living in U.S. and international cities; from Homefair.
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