BBC
News: Country Profiles The BBC News website launched in November 1997 and has since published
approaching one and a half million full multi-media news pages,
most of which are still available from the site's search engine
(top right of almost every page). A wide variety of sources are
used in the preparation of material - including BBC News, BBC World
Service and a large number of internationally-recognised news agencies
including the Press Association, Associated Press, Reuters and Agence
France-Presse. Note: This site has two main homepages - the UK version,
and the World Edition - with a more international feel.
Dow Jones Interactive Learning Center Includes an historical timeline and interactive tools as well as the genealogy of the Dow, along with a comparison of each company’s stock performance (excluding dividends) while in the industrial average with the DJIA’s performance for the same period.
Economagic:
Economic Time Series Page This page is meant to be a comprehensive
site of free, easily available economic time series data useful
for economic research, in particular economic forecasting. The majority
of the data is USA data. The core data sets involve US macroeconomic
data (that is, for the whole US), but the bulk of the data is employment
data by local area -- state, county, MSA, and many cities and towns.
Economics Education Journals & Newsletters
Economics
Journals
Economics
LTSN: Online Teaching Material Economics LTSN is one of a nationwide
network of 24 subject-based centres, created to promote high quality
learning, teaching and assessment practices in UK Higher Education.
The
Economics Net-Textbook with Interactive Graphics Use this site
to graphically analyze and explore economic theories and concepts
at your own pace. The lessons are interactive and each topic presents
subsidiary issues that may be analyzed by the student and results
are illustrated interactively with a click.
Economics
Resources for College Teachers A collection of information
and web links showing activities to use in economics classes and
sites of other teachers of economics.
Economist.com Provides analysis of world business and current affairs, and authoritative
insight and opinion on international news, world politics, business,
finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural
trends and regular industry, business and country surveys. Country
Briefings
EconStats
A vast cornucopia of economic statistics culled from
all over the world. Visitors can quickly access a wide range of
economic data from the United States, such as information about inflation,
unemployment levels, productivity, new factory orders, and the price of
crude oil. Also contains links to economic data from Canada,
Britain, Germany, the European Union, France, Italy, Russia, and China.
Federal
Reserve System Links to the 12 Federal
Reserve Districts and Banks are included. Use FED101 an interactive web site about the Federal Reserve System that contains
quizzes and a virtual bank examination. The Flash
version is a sound and video presentation that requires Flash
and a fast connection.
FRASER Federal Reserve archival system for economic research. Historical
economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.
Guide
to Labor Oriented Internet Resources This guide is organized
by subject in order to make viewing and downloading the documents
easier. The documents are located on the main web site for the Institute
of Industrial Relations, socrates.berkeley.edu/~iir.
Historical
Stock Quotes
History
of Economic Thought Archive An attempt to gather all material
for the study of the history of economics at one site. This includes
both primary texts, studies of those texts and of their authors.
IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research Welcome to the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 700,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 600,000 can be downloaded in full text! This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc. To see the popularity of these services, browse the statistics at LogEc
Inomics: Internet Site to Economists Inomics provides at a single stop on the Internet all the professional information economists need. It is a community platform and Inomics services are absolutely free in most cases.
Institute
for International Economics
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics A volunteer-driven initiative to create a public-access database that promotes scholarly communication in economics and related disciplines. The database contains information on more than 585,000 items:
of which more than 478,000 items are available on line.
RePEc's capabilities are unique in this regard: the RePEc database links information on the published and unpublished works of thousands of economists. RePEc promotes scholarly communication by providing a database that welcomes all providers of unpublished materials (working papers, discussion papers, research reports, conference papers) and publishers of journals (including scholarly societies, commercial and non-commercial publishers) to place their bibliographic information in the public domain. Individual economists are invited to identify the documents they have authored in the database. RePEc is volunteer-driven, and all RePEc information is freely available from web-based RePEc services such as:
Current RePEc data are used in the NEP (New Economics Papers, http://nep.repec.org) service that provides subject-specific current awareness email lists.
Resources
for Economists on the Internet This guide is sponsored
by the American Economic Association.
It lists 1,194 resources in 68 sections and sub-sections available
on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists,
and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also
described.
U.S. Department of the Treasury The basic functions of the Department of the Treasury include:
- Managing Federal finances;
- Collecting taxes, duties and monies paid to and due to the U.S. and paying all bills of the U.S.;
- Currency and coinage;
- Managing Government accounts and the public debt;
- Supervising national banks and thrift institutions;
- Advising on domestic and international financial, monetary, economic, trade and tax policy;
- Enforcing Federal finance and tax laws;
- Investigating and prosecuting tax evaders, counterfeiters, and forgers.
The
World Bank Group Contains information on the developing world.
The annual World Development Report overview is useful in providing
a contextual setting for understanding the present and future challenges
facing nations and regions in the developing world.
The
World Fact Book The CIA provides details of the demographic,
geographic, political, legal and economic makeup of countries and
territories worldwide, with maps and references. Appendixes include
information on abbreviations, a weights and measures chart, plus
information the United Nations System, International Organizations
and International Environmental Agreements, and more.
World
Wide Web Resources in Economics Lists and describes material
that could be of interest to mainly academic economists and is at
least in part freely available on the Internet.
|
