Guide to the Web for Economics
CHAPTER 3
General Resources in Economics
This chapter describes some of the main categories of
economic resources on the Web. Included are many public, private, and
educational sources of economic information for students, teachers,
and researchers in economics. In addition, a few resources on the
lighter side of economics are included. The URLs for the resources in
this chapter are grouped by the following categories:
Government Agency Resources
- Federal
Government Web Sites
- Executive Office
of the President
- Type: report Level: basic Length: medium Links: yes Graphics: no Other: pdf
- Page of the Executive Office of the President with complete
access to view and/or download current and past issues of the
Economic Report of the President.
- http://www.access.gpo.gov/eop/
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS)
- Type: list Level: intermediate Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Home page for the Bureau containing links to a wealth of
information about the economy in addition to regional economic
data and much more.
- http://stats.bls.gov/
- White
House Homepage
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: medium Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Page contains links to information about the federal
government and its services, the president and vice-president,
and White House history and tours.
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Type: report Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Homepage for the U.S. Census Bureau with links to
information about the Bureau, the U.S. Census, state and county
census profiles, economic surveys, economic indicators and much
more.
- http://www.census.gov/
- GPO
Access
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Site for the Government Printing Office providing links to
official federal government data and resources, including links
to the full text of legislative, executive, judicial, and
regulatory information.
- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/index.html
- Survey of
Current Business
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: pdf
- A great source for current economic data, this site links
to recent issues of a monthly journal from the Bureau of
Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business. Page also
links to other BEA sites with more national, international, and
regional data and articles.
- http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/pubs.htm
- U.S. Department of
Labor
- Type: list Level: basic Length: medium Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Site contains information about the Department of Labor,
its agencies, laws and regulations, statistics and data, news
releases, and related sites.
- http://www.dol.gov/
- U.S. Treasury
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Home page for the U.S. Treasury Department providing links
to information about the Treasury's products and services, its
bureaus and offices, current headlines, educational links, and
much more.
- http://www.ustreas.gov/
- Federal
Statistics
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Site maintained by the Federal Interagency Council on
Statistical Policy to provide easy access to statistics and
information produced by over 70 federal government agencies.
- http://www.fedstats.gov/
Private and Non-Profit Sources of
Economic and Financial Information
- Congressional Budget
Office
- Type: report Level: intermediate Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Page includes links to a plethora of economic reports,
testimony, and other documents compiled by the CBO, a
nonpartisan agency that provides the U.S. Congress with
economic and budgetary analysis.
- http://www.cbo.gov
- Federal Reserve
Board
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Home page for the Federal Reserve Board, providing a wealth
of information about how the Fed influences money and credit
conditions in the U.S., supervises and regulates banking,
maintains the stability of the financial system, and provides
certain financial services.
- http://www.federalreserve.gov/
- Brookings
Institution Home Page
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: no
Other: search
- Page provides links to information about the institute, its
publications, economics studies, foreign policy studies,
governmental studies, internal searches and much more.
- http://www.brook.edu/default.htm
- National
Bureau of Economic Research
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Home page for NBER, providing links to information about
the Bureau, its publications and the economy. Page also has
links to other sites of interest to economists.
- http://www.nber.org/links/links_resources.html
- SBER
Economics Program
- Type: writing Level: intermediate Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Home page for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research,
providing information about economics research funding
available from the National Science Foundation. Page links to
the NSFs grant policy manual, grant applications, information
about active grants, and more.
- http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sber/econ/start.htm
- Economagic Economic
Time Series
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
Other: search
- Site contains a link for the most requested data series,
providing easy and quick viewing of tables or graphs of common
economic measures. Page also links to some government agencies
and links to a plethora of economic data for individual states.
- http://www.economagic.com/
- RAND Organization Home
Page
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
Other: pdf/search
- Site provides information about RAND, a nonprofit
organization that provides research and analysis to assist in
policy decision making. Included are links to RANDs research
areas, complete texts of recent RAND reports in pdf format, a
searchable database of RAND titles and more.
- http://www.rand.org/
- The Economist
Magazine
- Type: publication Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Home page for The Economist, with a preview of the
current issue, archived past issues, a downloadable screen
saver and more.
- http://www.economist.com/
- AmosWorld
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: medium Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Page has links to some on-line economics books, a glossary
of economics topics, interactive test questions from various
economic topics, and much more.
- http://amos.bus.okstate.edu/
- The Dismal
Scientist
- Type: publication Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Site features articles, an indicator calendar with graphs
and links to the latest data on economic indicators, links to
forecasts, data, and much more.
- http://www.dismal.com
- CNN-fn
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- The financial network page of CNN with links to current
business and market news, personal finance information, and
much more.
- http://www.cnnfn.com
- Economic
Information Center
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Page from Standard & Poor's DRI contains data,
information, news and analysis on the U.S., regional and world
economies.
- http://www.dri.mcgraw-hill.com/framecon.htm
- Washington
Post
- Type: publication Level: basic Length: medium Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Home page for the Washington Post newspaper that
features the current and archived articles with photos and an
internal search engine.
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/
- Los Angeles
Times
- Type: publication Level: basic Length: medium Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Home page for the Los Angeles Times newspaper that
includes current and archived articles with photos and an
internal search engine.
- http://www.latimes.com/
Economics Associations and Resources
for Economists
- Economic
Associations on the Web
- AEA Directory of
Members
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: no Other: search
- Site provides a mechanism to search the membership list for
the American Economic Association and has links to the AEA home
page and Job Openings for Economists.
- http://www.eco.utexas.edu/AEA/
- AEAweb EconLit
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: no Other: search
- Site for EconLit, the American Economic
Association's electronic bibliography of economic literature.
Page lists journals indexed in EconLit, complete with
links to publishers' web pages where abstracts and full-texts
of some articles are available.
- http://www.econlit.org/
- WebEc List of
Economics Journals
- Type: list Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Page categorizes economics information on the Web, with
links to sites relating to virtually all areas of economics.
The site also provides links to information about the contents
of economics journals, publishers, and guidelines for
submission of papers to be published.
- http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc.html
- Economic
Journals on the Web
- Current
Economic Data Links
- Type: list Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Page provides a detailed table for quick access to current
economic statistics, both U.S. and international. Table also
links to the site for the data source.
- http://www.csufresno.edu/Economics/econ_EDL.htm
- Economics
Departments on the Internet
- Type: list Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: no
- Page contains a directory of links to U.S. colleges and
universities with economics departments on the Internet; links
are grouped by state.
- http://price.bus.okstate.edu/econdept.html
- RFE Title Page
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
Other: search
- Resources for Economists page containing links to a virtual
library of economic information on the Internet with an
internal search engine. With more than 700 resource topics,
this guide would be of interest to all economists, as well as
individuals with a general interest in economics.
- http://rfe.wustl.edu/
- Internet
Resources for Economists
- Type: list Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- A list of links to a wide variety of Web resources for
economists, including economics associations, data, journals,
government resources, and more.
- http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/econweb.htm
Economics Education Resources
- Glossary of
Political Economy Terms
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Page from Auburn University contains a long alphabetized
glossary of economics terms. Clicking on a term gives a fairly
detailed definition that includes a direct link to any related
terms.
- http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/
- Economics
Glossary of Terms
- Classroom
Expernomics
- Type: publication/list
Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: pdf
- A newsletter dedicated to the use of economic experiments
as a teaching tool for the classroom, allowing the user to
download previous issues and submit a classroom experiment for
publication. Page also links to other sites related to
experimental economics.
- http://www.marietta.edu/~delemeeg/expernom.html
- Economics
Resources
- Type: writing/list Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Page contains links to teaching resources for courses in
many areas of economics. Links go to the syllabus and other
teaching materials for various professors of economics.
- http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/eco/
- CyberEconomics
- RFE
Teaching Resources
- Type: list Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: no Other: Search
- Page contains numerous links to a variety of sites that
provide a wealth of economic information. Links include
Internet guides for students, support for instructors and
researchers, classroom experiments, tutorials, on-line
exercises and more.
- http://128.252.177.190/Teaching/index.html
- ECONlinks
- Type: list Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Site provides easy access to economic and financial
information useful to students in economics and business
courses. Includes links to news, economic indicators, data,
analysis, forecasts, and a wealth of resources for both
students and teachers of economics.
- http://www.ncat.edu/~simkinss/econlinks.html
- Economic
Education Web
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Site provides links to economic data and a plethora of
resources for teachers and students of economics at all levels,
K-12, colleges and universities.
- http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teach-ec.htm
- Learning
Skills on the Internet
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: long Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Site provides on-line materials to help improve learning
skills in an effort to help students make an easier transition
to a university environment. Links to sites offering study tips
for economics but also includes links to sites related
developing skills in English, mathematics and statistics.
- http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/ecowww/study.html
- Economics
U$A
- Type: writing Level: basic Length: medium Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: search
- Site contains information about video resources for
telecourses in macro and microeconomics. The video courses
involve case studies of the 20th century's major
economic events, interviews with Nobel Prize-winning
economists, and relate economic theory to real-world events.
- http://www.learner.org/collections/multimedia/economics/ecseries/
- Multimedia
Microeconomic Theory
- Type: writing/list; Level: advanced; Length: short; Links: yes; Graphics: yes
- A fairly sophisticated multimedia approach for teaching,
learning, and applying intermediate microeconomic theory.
- http://medusa.be.udel.edu/entry1.htm
- Problems
in Microeconomics
- Type: writing/list Level: advanced Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes Other: pdf
- Site from Michigan State University contains more than 30
downloadable problem sets for principles and intermediate
microeconomic theory. Each problem set contains a printed pdf
version of the questions and an interactive Excel spreadsheet
with a graphical model and an answer sheet for instantaneous
grading.
- http://www.bus.msu.edu/econ/brown/pim/
- CyberEconomics
- Type: list Level: basic Length: short Links: yes Graphics: yes
- Site provides links to subjects for an on-line
supplementary textbook for macro and micro principles of
economics, including detailed teaching notes with graphs.
- http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/TOC.html
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