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The core database for this discipline is EconLit.
For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

Web Sites

The core database for this discipline is EconLit.
For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

• AgEcon Search
  

  AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics.

• Avalon Project
  

  “The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. “

• BBC News | Inside Europe
  

  Historical/organizational overview of the European Union. By BBC News. Offers time line of formation of the EU. Provides information on EU agencies, defines EU terminology, and features up to date discussions on relevant events and issues.

• BEA – State Bearfacts
  

  Quick economic and demographic data for states, from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

• BRB Free Public Records
  

  The “most comprehensive directory of free public record sites, reference material, and public record vendors available.”

• Campbell R. Harvey’s Hypertextual Finance Glossary
  
• Census Bureau Home Page
  

  Offers a variety of data access tools, including American Factfinder and CenStats. CenStats provides access to County Business Patterns, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, Occupation by Race and Sex, USA Counties, International Trade Data, etc.

• CensusScope
  

  CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan.

• CGS PolicyArchive
  

  “PolicyArchive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. “

• CHASS Penn World Tables
  

  “The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2005.”

• Countries (EIA) with Country Analysis Briefs
  

  From the Energy Information Administration, specialized country and regional energy-related information and data

• Country Risk and Economic Research
  
• County and City Data Books
  

  This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).

• Deposit Rates Exchange
  

  “Compare Interest Rates for Fixed, Term, Time and CD Deposits Worldwide”

• Directory of development organizations.
  

  Comprehensive directory of development organizations: “(1) international organizations; (2) government institutions; (3) private sector support organizations (including fairtrade); (4) finance institutions; (5) training and research centres; (6) civil society organizations; (7) development consulting firms (including references to job opportunities and vacancy announcements); (8) information providers (development newsletters/journals); and, (9) grantmakers.

• Doing Business – The World Bank Group
  

  Reliable full text free reports by international analysts, from the World Bank.

• Dow Jones Global Index Analysis
  

  Dow Jones Global Index Analysis provides brief performance analyses for ten market sectors and six regions. The analyses are based on 50 DJ indexes.

• Economic Policy Institute
  

  Nonpartisan think tank, focusing on needs of the American worker.

• Economicae A
  

  Short definitions of economic terms.

• EM-DAT – International Disaster Database
  
• EUROPA – Economic and monetary affairs
  

  From the European Union. Access to official European Union policy and statistics.

• European Union Internet Resources – Berkeley Library
  
• EuroStat
  

  All sorts of statistics about and from the European Union. Make your own data reports using their statistics database.

• Everything International
  

  Global business and country resources.

• FedWorld.gov
  

  “A comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information.” Many specific government databases can be searched from this page.

• Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report
  
• Foreign Exchange Rates Historical Search
  

  Foreign Exchange Rates Historical – From the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research)
  

  Archival economic and monetary data from the Federal Reserve.

• Freedom in the 50 States
  

  “This study comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.” From the George Mason MERCATUS Center

• FTC – Bureau of Economics: Working Papers
  
• Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
  
• Great American Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century
  
• HUD User
  

  Reports and data compiled by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

• ILR Catherwood Digital Collections
  

  Scholarship of Cornell ILR’s faculty and researchers and collections of digital material selected by the reference librarians and archivists at Catherwood library.

• IMF – International Monetary Fund
  

  The IMF is an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.

• Industry Snapshots from the Economic Census
  
• ITC – International Trade Center
  
• LABORSTA Internet
  

  International Labor statistics of all kinds, from the International Labour Office.

• Latin American Business History – Resources and Research
  
• Liber8™ – The Research Library of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  

  An economic information portal. Links to all sorts of economic and financial resources.

• MetroTrends | Urban Institute’s report card on social and economic trends in urban America
  
• OECD iLibrary
  

  Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

• Open Development
  
• Regional Economic Conditions RECON
  

  40,000+ charts, maps and tables of data at the state, MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) and county level economic data.

• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
  

  By an international group of scholars, a directory/database for scholary communication in economics. Both published and unpublished sources, along with contacts information, links, and a working paper archive.

• RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet
  

  Access to more than 1,000 sources organized by category.

• Society at a Glance – OECD Social Indicators
  
• State Fact Sheets – USDA Economic Research Service
  
• State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)
  
• States Perform
  

  “States Perform provides users with access to interactive, customizable and up-to-date comparative performance measurement data for 50 states in six key areas: fiscal and economic, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health and human services, and education. “

• Statistics for Specific Industries | SBA.gov
  
• Tax Policy Center
  
• Treasury International Capital System (TIC)
  
• UBS dictionary of banking
  
• UNdata
  
• USAspending.gov
  

  “Have you ever wondered where Federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the Government is really doing with your money.”

• VOX
  

  “VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites. Vox aims to promote research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading scholars. The intended audience is economists in governments, international organisations, academia and the private sector as well as journalists specializing in economics, finance and business.”

• VOX
  

  “VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites. Vox aims to promote research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading scholars. The intended audience is economists in governments, international organisations, academia and the private sector as well as journalists specializing in economics, finance and business.”

• West Coast Poverty Center
  
• Wharton Financial Institutions Center
  

  From the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, associated with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The research focus is on primary research on financial institutions.

• Wirtz Labor Digital Library
  

  The Wirtz Labor Digital Library contains materials representative of the physical holdings at the Wirtz Labor Library, U.S. Department of Labor.

• World Bank – Open Knowledge Repository
  
• World Bank eAtlas of Global Development
  

  The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries, letting you visualize and compare progress on the most important development challenges facing our world. Most indicators cover several decades, so you can see, for example, how “life expectancy at birth” has improved from 1960 up through the latest year.

• World Development Report Online
  

  From the World Bank.

• World Development Report: Development and Climate Change
  

  Full text of the 2010 World Development Report: Development and Climate Change from the World Bank

• Writing in College – A Short Guide to College Writing
  

  From the University of Chicago