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This list was reviewed and updated on 6 August 2001. Please send news of dead and changed links and suggestions for new resources to the College Webmaster
WWW Connections for the Business Department at Capital.
WebEc, an enormous resource, from Finland (but mirrored at Washington University, St. Louis).
Institute for International Economics Speeches, testimonies and essays by the staff at the Institute on a variety of international economics issues are also available as is a collection of working papers published since 1994.
World Bank Journals Journals are searchable by article and by issue, as
well as by author and keyword.
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), an extraordinary meta-page of internet resources. Click on "Browse SOSIG."
Internet Documents in Economics Access Service (IDEAS), maintained by Christian Zimmermann, member
of the Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment (CREFE) at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Thousands of downloadable research documents.
Economics Network, by Dr. Ed Yardeni, an excellent source of up to date charts, etc. (requires a PDF reader on your browser).
EconEdLink The aim of the site is to create "a portfolio of web sites offering rich academic content" that can be integrated into classroom activities.
Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text , by Dr. Roger A. McCain, Professor of Economics, Drexel University. Full text, includes quizzes and answer sheets.
CyberEconomics, developed by Robert Schenk, Professor of Economics at Saint Joseph's College. The site is meant to be "an interactive supplement to a principles of economics course." CyberEconomics covers most of the topics in introductory microeconomics and macroeconomics.
ECONLinks North
Carolina A & T State University, created this metasite to provide easy
access to basic economic and financial information for students.
Macroeconomics This web site is developed by Dryden Press to supplement the economics
textbook Economics: Private and Public Choice, by James D. Gwartney and Richard L. Stroup.
Country Commercial Guides The United States State Department has recently made available the Fiscal
Year 1998 Country Commercial Guides (CCG's).
Demographic Profile Generator Enter the codes for any geographical unit and this software from University of Missouri, St. Louis, creates all kinds of useful tables for you.
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, a broad-based collection of resources
pertaining to economic and legal issues throughout the world.
Hypertextual Finance Glossary The Economics 364: Survey of International Economics web site was developed
by Blake LeBaron, Professor of Economics at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. The class aims to explain finance and macroeconomic
policies in the world economy and trade patterns among countries.
Survey of Current Business The US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis has recently made available full text (in Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format), of its monthly compendium of articles and statistics about state, regional, and US business and economic conditions.
Wall Street Journal Interactivo, "to serve the needs of Latin American businesspeople."
Age of Asia: Resources for Research Maintained by Kristina Kade Troost, the East Asian Librarian at Duke University, this site was created as a resource for student research
projects in a business school course entitled Age of Asia.
Economic Policy Institute Datazone, providing recently updated figures and statistics on the labor market, family income, prices, GDP, wages, poverty, trade, the budget deficit, and interest rates.
Universal Currency Converter Up-to-the-minute currency conversion among major economies.
World Economic Outlook: 1997, from the International Monetary Fund (requires an Acrobat Reader).
New England Economic Review from Boston's Federal Reserve Bank. Abstracts of all articles and full-text of some articles (requiring an Acrobat Reader).
EcEdWeb: Economic Education Website, created by the Center for Economic Education at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. The aim of the site is to provide support for economic education from K-12 through college.
Economic Encounter, a great collection of hyperlinks in economics, from Professor Juan Manuel Villasuso at the University of Costa Rica (Spanish Version also available).
FedStats, from the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy.
Monthly Economic Indicators, from the University of California's "GPO Gate."
History of Economic Thought, full-text classics, from McMaster's University.
A Thousand Years of Work and Money, articles from the Christian Science Monitor examines the evolution of work.
Understanding the World's Macroeconomy, provided by Nouriel Roubini, Associate Professor of Economics and International Business at the Stern School of Business, New York University for his MBA Macroeconomics course.
Understanding the World's Macroeconomy, provided by Nouriel Roubini, Associate Professor of Economics and International Business at the Stern School of Business, New York University for his MBA Macroeconomics course.
A Comparative History of Money from Ancient to Modern Times.
BIS: Bank for International Settlements, requires an Adobe Acrobat Reader. Includes publications of papers and the Bis Review.
Publications of the International Monetary Fund, requires an Adobe Acrobat Reader, which this site makes available.
Economics and Politics An online journal, a project of The American Prospect.
SIPRI Military Expenditure Country Graphs The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI) military expenditure project "collects information on and monitors trends in military expenditure throughout the world. The data provide a solid basis for comparisons and evaluations of military expenditure and of the economic burden of such expenditure."
The Brookings Institution Policy Briefs Primarily economics policies, but touches upon other societal and political concerns as well.
Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, from Oxford University. Not very pretty, but there's a lot of good information here on interesting subjects in economic study.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, publications, etc.
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Consumer Price Indexes Using Geometric Means, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Federal Budget Publications and The Economic Report of the President, from the Office of Management and Budget.
Economics Working Papers Archive from Washington University in St. Louis--abstracts and full-text articles.
Berkeley Roundtable on International Economy (BRIE), a research project
based at the University of California at Berkeley that examines the
real-world interactions of technology, markets, and economies."
Reports Issued by the Office of the United States Trade Representative and Related Entities Requires an Acrobat PDF Reader. Includes the valuable "Study on the Operation and Effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement."
Virtual International Business and Economic Sources, from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
CNNfn -- The Financial Network Analyses of financial stories, stock quotes, etc.
Price Theory: An Intermediate Text David D. Friedman, Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, has made his textbook, "Price Theory: An Intermediate Text" available on the web.
The AmosWorld Reading Room Orley Amos, Professor of Economics at Oklahoma State University, has
recently added The AmosWorld Reading Room as a metapage shortcut to his
growing universe of online publications.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Home-Page.
Central Banks of the World, information on central banks for over 45 countries.
Iowa Center for International Finance and Development Enrique R. Carrasco, Professor of Law at the University of Iowa,
collaborated with a group of students to create this electronic handbook on
international finance and development. The main objective of the book is to
help readers "gain a basic understanding of the operations of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank and their roles in an
increasingly globalized economy."
Finance and Development, covering the economic policy of third-world countries, this is a quarterly publication of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Feminism and Globalization: The Impact of the Global Economy on Women and Feminist Theory, from Indiana University's Journal of Global Legal Studies..
Country Studies, from the Library of Congress, includes economics information for each country.
Financial Data Finder, from Ohio State University.
State Governments Finance Data, By State: downloadable files.
FAIRMODEL, creating economic indicators and predictors right on the web! Free, from Yale University.
US Agricultural Outlook Forum -- an overview of agricultural markets for the near-term and the implications for the U.S. farm economy, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
AgEcon: Search Engine for Agricultural Economics, requires a PDF reader--from the University of Minnesota.
The Heritage Foundation An excellent page from the conservative think-tank. Try the "Policy Review" for full-text articles, etc.
Journal of Economic Education, the most recent issues have full-text articles available in Acrobat Reader format.
The Electronic Policy Network.
Centre for the Study of African Economies, applies macroeconomic and microeconomic methods to African sociological, demographic, and political contexts. Selected abstracts
and working papers from 1993 to present are available on topics ranging
from central bank policy to health, crop choice, wages, and unemployment.
The Official Paul Krugman Web Page, papers, articles, etc. from Paul Krugman, formerly Professor of Economics at MIT (now at Princeton) and one of the most influential economists in the country.
