Economics

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Gateways	Study Guides/ Other Course Materials	Reference
Statistics	Databases	Electronic Journals / Newspapers
Current Awareness	Working Papers	Current Economic Writing
Government/ Institutional Resources	History of Economic Thought	Economic Development
International Trade/ Globalisation	Asia Pacific Economies	Information Economy
Econometrics		Miscellaneous

Gateways

Academic Info: Economics: Good annotated list of resources.
Alta Plana : International Economics Gateway: Consists of 4 sections - Resource pages and data archives, International Organizations, National Governments and Corporate Servers.
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies: Aim of the Centre is to address long-term, strategic economic and social issues of international concern and significance; Amongst their publications is A Primer on the Knowledge Economy. Also has working papers some of which are available online.
Economic Education Web: Economics Resources for University and College Teaching . Includes data, links, journals, on-line textbooks and more.
Economics Internet Resources: A collection of resources from Western Connecticut State University
Economics Resources on the World Wide Web: From Capital Community-Technical College. A very large collection of annotated economics links. Would be better if it was in categories or in alphabetical order.
Economics - Single Subject WWW Pages: Links to sites covering a specific topic of economics - from Agricultural Economics to Regional Economics via Post-Keynsian thought. Unfortunately no loner maintained.
Internet Resources for Economists: Another comprehensive site from John Kane, SUNY-Oswago. Includes links to economics texts online.
Interesting Sites for Economists: Extensive links under subject headings - unfortunately links not annotated.
O'Keefe Library - Economics Resources: Well chosen selection - part of their Best Information on the Net pages.
Resources for Economists - Bill Goffe: Lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Massive amounts of information. Well known and respected site.
Rutgers University Libraries: Research Guides: Economics: A well organised collection of resources.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page: Gives access to The Economics Research Network which is designed to increase scholarly communication between economic scholars, practitioners and policy makers.
Social Science Research - Economics Resources.: List of economic resources.
Steve Keen's Home Page: Lecturer at University of Western Sydney, Macquarie
UQ List of WWW Sites for Economists: Links to Economic Departments and Associations, Economic Journals, Bulletin Boards, and software.
Voice of the Shuttle: Postindustrial Business Theory Page: Terrific collection of links to various aspects of business. Some topics are economics, downsizing, knowledge management, teams, quality, business & technology etc.
WebEc-WWW: Major economics site covering all aspects of economics. Includes list of economic journals.
William A Barnett's Recommendations: William Barnett's (professor of economics at Washington University) selection of web sites for the professional .

Government / Institutional Sources

ABARE Home Page

Has newsletter & "Current Issues" with 8 page reports on matters of interest such as the disposal of the wool stockpile. Has text of media releases and well as catalogue of publications and lists of research projects.

Australian Business Foundation

"The Australian Business Foundation is a new independent, activist economic and industry policy think tank. We commission and conduct high quality research on issues that impact on Australia's international competitiveness and job generation capability."

Australian Business - Government Relations

Australian Business has section on Talking to Government .

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)

See particularly their policies

Australian Government Home Page

Links to Commonwealth and State government departments etc.

Commonwealth Treasury of Australia

Full text of publications, Wallis report, Economic Roundup etc. One of the features is a range of economic statistics including CPI.

Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Australia

Look particularly at their publications section for reports on Australia's industry and economic growth.

Economic Updates - Westpac Bank

Variety of reports on Australian economy

Financial Systems Inquiry (Wallis Report)

Financial Systems Inquiry 1997. Full text available for download.

National Office for the Information Economy

NOIE is the National Office for the Information Economy - Australia's lead Commonwealth body for information economy issues.

oneworld.net: guides : World Trade Organisation

OECD Online

Lots of topical full text information great for economics, environment.

Productivity Commission Home Page

Formerly the Industry Commission. Text of recent inquiries You will need Adobe Acrobat to read documents.

Reserve Bank of Australia Conference Volumes

Includes the proceedings of the Conference : The Australian Economy in the 1990's. Held July, 2000

World Bank Publications

Many of their publications are available in full-text from this site. Of particular interest are "Global Economic Prospects 2000" and "World Development Report 1999/2000".

World Economic Forum

The latest Global Competitiveness Report is available here

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Study Guides/ Tutorials

Biz/ed: Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students teachers and lecturers. Searchable by keywords; annotated sites and simulations. Material for both undergraduates and MBAs
Clark and Larke: From David Clarke who is the author of Students Economic Briefs and Economic Update.
CyberEconomics: Describes itself as a "semi-interactive almost multi-media way to learn Economics". (both micro and macro)
EconEd: Economics America is a program of the National Council on Economic Education and is dedicated to the teaching of economics through new technologies.
Econet:: Economic Information on-line,. Essays, statistics and economic topics.
Economic Education : EdEdWeb: The purpose of EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Website, is to provide support for economic education in all forms and at all levels.
Economic Literacy Project: Includes results of an American Survey on Economic Literacy reports from a recent symposium and you can test your own level of economic literacy.
Economics Course: Presentation Slides for courses on macroeconomics, cost benefit analysis etc.
Economics - Interactive Lectures: Samuel Baker, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration at the University of South Carolina, has developed a series of interactive economics lectures. The lectures are at the level of introductory microeconomics. Lecture topics cover: demand, supply, elasticity, market equilibrium, costs, discounting, and internal rate of return. Each lecture features Java based interactive questions and examples. Users receive immediate feedback and hints on their responses to questions. [Scout Report]
Price of Aging: From the ABC's Background Briefing
Pricing the Environment: Measurement and analysis of benefits and costs. Series of powerpoints from course.
Principles of Economics: Course from Drexel university. They are threatening to make it a pay for service site.
Virtual Economy: "The Virtual Economy is an online model of the UK Economy based on the HM Treasury model. This means that you can use it to make policy changes and see the effects on the economy. The output page gives you the effect both on the macroeconomy (inflation, economic growth, unemployment and so on) and also on individual families earning different amounts."

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Reference

Amos World Economic Glossary: A searchable glossary of economic terms.
CIA World Factbook: Statistics for all countries.
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. Wonderful on-line encyclopedia with extensive signed articles . Articles can be access by title, author or category. The are also references to related articles and short bibliographies. A very useful resource.
Economic Growth Resources: Jonathan Temple, Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University, has put together a collection of economic growth resources at this site. The resources available are divided into data sets, journals, literature surveys and working papers. Through the data links, researchers can obtain various economic growth data sets such as Barro-Lee, Summers-Heston and the Penn World Tables, among others. [Scout Report]
Glodat World Stock Market Summary: Daily tracking of world stock markets. Click on a country for a time series.
Open Directory - Reference: Dictionaries: Just about every dictionary you could ever need including ones for business. (look under Subjects and choose Business)

Statistics

ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics. In addition to the freely available information on the ABS Web site, AusStats provides access to a vast amount of data - including tens of thousands of tables. All this information is linked together to provide easy one stop access to the ABS statistical information on the Web site. (Free access to USQ students and staff)
CIA World Factbook: Statistics for all countries.
Economagic: Economic Time Series Page: Browse Data Collections. Over 100,000 data files, with charts and excel files for each . 200+ Australian Times Series.
Economics Queensland - Office of Economic and Statistical Research: Queensland Treasury site. Good Queensland Regional Statistics.
International Data Base (IDB): International demographic and socio-economic statistics for all countries of the world.
Monthly Economic and Social Indicators: Graphs and Tables from the Parliamentary Library
OnLine Data Sources: Uni.of Notre Dame. Link from Business Forecasting Home page. Links include Singapore Statistics.
Statistical Resources on the Web: Economics. From the University of Michigan.
VCE Economics: An excellent site - very content rich. Looks at both Australia and overseas with an extensive statistics section which has time-series.

Electronic Journals / Newspapers

Asia Pacific Journal of Economics and Business: Table of contents for this journal which is subscribed to by the USQ Library. Also has links to other sites of regional economic interest.
Australian Journals : Business & Economics: Subject access to Australian Business and Economic journals available electronically. Includes Australian Financial Review. Choose a subject search of Economics.
B>Quest: A journal of applied topics in business and economics. Areas covered are for academics, practitioners, pedagogy and comment.
Business Review Week: Once one of the best sites around. These days you can only get access to back issues if you are a personal subscriber - sadly, there is no access for Libraries.
CEDA Bulletin: Committee for Economic Development of Australia - is an independent, apolitical organisation made up of business leaders, academics and others who have an interest in, and commitment to, Australia's economic and social development. Articles from 1997 by many well-known names.
Econochat: Econochat is the biannual magazine of The Department of Economics. Its purpose is to provide teachers of economics in secondary schools with additional background and insights into key economic issues.
The Economist: Full Web access is free if you are already a print subscriber .Free text of current articles and a searchable archive (but you do have to pay for some of the articles). However, full text articles are available on the databases EbscoHost Business Source Elite and Infotrac Business ASAP.
Fortune: Limited access to current edition . You can search the site
London Economics Web: Has a good newsletter 'Economics in Action (choose Publications from Menu).
Newspapers on the Web: Collection from my database page - Australian and overseas newspapers such as The Australian Financial Review and Far Eastern Economic Review

Current Awareness

The Dismal Scientist: An economic information and economic analysis website. It offers comprehensive and timely economic data and analysis (mainly American) , at the metro, state, and national level by recognized economists. Our site is geared more towards small business owners and students.
Econbase [Elsevier]: Tables of Contents & Abstracts of 36 Economics, Econometrics & Finance journals. Over 7,500 Refereed Journal Articles Published Since 1994.
Handbook of Economics Home Page: Contents pages of Elsevier Economics Handbooks.
Scout Report *****: An excellent long established site, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Published weekly . Sadly the excellent fortnightly Scout Report Business & Economics is no longer being published but will be incorporated in the weekly edition.

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History of Economic Thought

Archive of the History of Economic Thought ****: Australian mirror site of Rod Hay's site at McMaster University. Samples of the work of every noted economist are there along with photographs and supplementary material. A first rate effort.
Dead Economists Society: Portraits, biographies and selected writings.
History of Economic Thought: This web site includes home pages for over five hundred economists from the 17th Century until the modern day. Each individual web page contains a bibliography of their most important works plus some comments, on their individual contributions to economic theory.
History of Economic Thought Course: Course material for the History of Economic Thought at Victoria University, Canada. Includes course notes and electronic texts.
StudyWeb: Famous Economists: Papers, book excerpts, articles on economists, famous and not so famous.

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International Trade / Globalisation

Economics Course in International trade/ international trade policy

This is an interactive on-line course teaching the fundamentals of international trade policy developed by the University of Western Australia

globalEDGE

Updated directory of international business resources categorized by specific orientation and content . Excellent site from Michigan State University.

globalisation_1

A Guide to both general resources on aspects of Australia's political relations with other countries and to specific references on the issue of "globalisation". Reference Collection sources, current periodicals and electronic databases are included for background information, together with a selected list of Internet links in the form of papers and full-text journal articles. From the University of Adelaide.

Globalization FAQ: Links

Good site but does not appear to have been updated recently.

Globalisation Guide

The Globalisation Guide is designed as a resource for students. It presents the arguments of both those who believe globalisation is a force for good and those who believe it is a force for evil. Site has been developed by Australian Apec Study Centre at Monash University.

Human Society and the Global Economy

A textbook-in -progress for a survey course in economics which takes an institutional/ post-Keynsian approach. Chapters are available in a variety of formats.

International Economics

Web resources for international economics and business

International Economics

"This Website is designed to help the Internet community (students in international economics or business, teachers, and business professionals) with essential information on international trade, finance, business, law and others." Site maintained by Dr.Daniel Y Lee, Shippenburg University.

International Economics and Business Resources

Produced at Shippenberg University. Links to sites on International: trade finance, development, trade law, business, accounting, management and marketing. Course outline for international economics. Statistics and econometrics, references and discussion forum.

International Economics Internet Resources

International Economics Study Center

International Economics On-line

On-line course from Shippensburg University.

International Economics Study Center

Created by Steve Suranovic, an Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington D.C. and is a web textbook and more. Other features at the site include links to current international trade news stories, a site devoted to the issue of fairness in international trade, preliminary notes for an international finance webtext, and much more.

International Trade Theory and Policy Analysis

On on-line textbook by Steven Suranovic. Chapters include various models of Trade.

Milewide Key International Resources

The websites and readings used by Lee M. Seitz, a college business instructor, to teach international business.

oneworld.net : Globalization

Aim of the site is to publish information about global issues at low cost for development NGOs and others. These sites contain text and pictures and, increasingly, audio and video clips.

oneworld.net:guides : Trade

WebEc - International Economics

A collection of resources from this major economics site.

WWW Virtual Library - International Affairs.

This section of the WWW Virtual Library presents over 1750 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics. Has section on International Business & Economics.

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Information Economy

Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

Aim of the Centre is to address long-term, strategic economic and social issues of international concern and significance; Amongst their publications is A Primer on the Knowledge Economy. Also has working papers some of which are available online.

Emerging Digital Economy

The report presents both economic analysis and case studies that paint a picture of the importance of electronic commerce and information technologies to the economy as a whole and to individual sectors of the economy. From Clinton Admin & US Dept. of Commerce.

Knowledge Management

This all-inclusive site features an extensive collection of research papers, articles, and interviews on topics such as data mining, complexity theory, and "the human side of knowledge management;". (Scout Report)

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Working Papers

Economics Research Network - ERN: Economics Research Network is dedicated to increasing communication among economics scholars, practitioners, and policymakers throughout the world.
Economics Resources - Net Ec: NetEc is an international academic effort to improve the communication of Economics via electronic media. From here you can access information re working papers and internet sites among other services.
Economics Working Papers Archive - EconWPA: This award winning service (provided by the Economics Department of Washington University ), is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics. There are 22 subject areas, along with a test posting area, a meetings area, an area for programs and an area for data. Other areas are added when demand dictates. You will need Postscript/Adobe
Gans: Research: From University of Melbourne, working papers, articles and popular articles in a PDF format.
Ideas: IDEAS stands for "Internet Documents in Economics Access Service". It is a service providing information about working papers to the economics profession
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research: Working Paper Series, Newsletter and Annual Report can be downloaded for no cost. Other services cost
National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. - NBER: The largest "traditional" archive on-line
Research Papers in Economics - RePEc: A decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. Over 90,000 working papers .
Working Papers in Economics- WoPEc: WoPEc is a service for finding and downloading the latest research results in economics. It contains over 45,000 papers.

Current Economic Writing

Brad DeLong's Web Site: Professor of Economics , University of California at Berkeley
Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences: "Debunking Economics takes you behind the sanitised, airbrushed view of economics given by its adherents and their textbooks. The book details the many critiques which have been made of economic theory by economists...". Stephen Keen , the Author, has a page supporting the books with books extracts and more.
Hal Varian: Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, Professor in the Haas School of Business, and Professor in the Department of Economics
John Quiggin's Home page: Full text of many of the articles written by this Australian Research Council Senior Fellow in the Department of Economics Faculty of Economics and Commerce ANU. Journal articles, newspaper articles, conference papers etc. on a variety of economic topics.
Official Paul Krugman Web Page: Interesting site which gives access to recent writings of this economist.
Nicholas Economides: Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Visiting Professor,Economics Department, Stanford University.
Nobel Prize in Economics: Winners from 1969 to 2001 with links to home pages, publications etc.
The Secret History of the Dismal Science: Economics, Religion and Race in the 19th Century:: By David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart, Library of Economics and Liberty

Economic Development

Economic Growth Resources: "These pages are designed as a resource for researchers studying economic growth". Site hosted by University of Bristol. Site includes survey, datasets, reference lists on various topics and more.
Eldis Homre Page: ELDIS is a development and environmental issues meta-site hosted by the British Library of Development Studies. It provides annotated links not only to networked information of all types, ranging from web sites to library catalogues, but also research project information, map and newspaper collections, and bibliographies as well. The ELDIS site is searchable; users can also search for full-text materials available at other sites. A browsable list covering some 60 subjects is provided. The resources at this site are all annotated and contain links to resources in related areas (Scout Report)
Institute for the Future: Forecasts of critical technological, demographic and business trends
Welcome to the World Future Society: The World Future Society is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization for people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. "Oh brave new world..."
Virtual Developing Country: This site introduces you to many of the issues and ideas that are of interest in the field of development economics. Based on Zambia with key data and economic theory, a glossary and pictures. From Biz/ed
Western Australia's Regional Development Commission: Interesting paper on regional futures with statistics comparing world economies trade etc.
World Bank Development Economics Home Page: Provides data sets and World Economic Prospects on-line

Asia Pacific Economies

Asia Crisis Home Page ****: Arguably the best and most comprehensive site on the Asian Monetary Crisis
Asia in the Word Economy Home Page: A Comprehensive Web Resource on Asia. From Harvard University.
Asia Recovery Information Center: Objectives of the ARIC web site are to: monitor the social and economic impacts of the Asian crisis and the recovery process with a view to identify the remaining policy agenda for a sustained social as well as economic recovery.
Asia Society: Choices, Social Consequences and the Philippine Case
The Australian APEC Study Centre: Australian APEC Study Centre is a unit of Monash University in Melbourne. Its role is to research, to inform and to promote discussion on issues related to Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. Includes text of conferences proceedings, issues papers and links.
Social Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis.: Technical report for discussion at the High-Level Tripartite Meeting on Social , Responses to the Financial Crisis in East and South-East Asian Countries, Bangkok, 22-24 April 1998. Via ILO

Miscellaneous

Economist Jokes: Who says Economists aren't fun people?
Virtual Library on Microcredit: A site dedicated to Microcredit. Includes case studies in a wide variety of countries, documentation, bibliographies and links. An excellent site with a great deal of depth.

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Econometrics

Econometric Resources on the Internet: Created by John Kane, SUNY-Oswego. This site is designed to assist users of Econometrics: An Applied Approach (yet to be published) and for others interested in econometrics
Handbook of Econometrics: The first 4 volumes of the Handbook of Econometrics online in Adobe pdf format from Elsevier

Databases

These the major databases useful to those studying Economics They can only be accessed by USQ students and staff.

ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Citations and summaries from Australian newspapers and business journals. Updated daily. [ Australian]
Academic Search Premier: Journal Articles. Covers the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Over 3,200 scholarly journals indexed, including over 1,000 journals available in full text (many dating back to 1990). Over 1,700 journals are peer-reviewed. [American] (EbscoHost Database)
Business Source Elite: Provides comprehensive access to abstracts and indexing for over 1500 titles, including the Wall Street Journal, plus searchable full text for more than 750 business periodicals. [American] (EbscoHost Database)
Auststats: AusStats is a web based information service providing you with the ABS' full standard product range (both free and charged material) on-line. Available by subscription only, AusStats allows you to conveniently access: All ABS publications from 1998 onwards in Adobe Acrobat format Over 2,000 spreadsheets; Multidimensional datasets in SuperTABLE format; Census Basic Community Profiles to the Statistical Local Area (SLA) level in Excel spreadsheet format; Free summary information including Main Features, Release Advices & Australia Now and extensive linking between related information. [Australian]
Austrom: APAIS Australian Public Affairs Information Service: Produced by the National Library of Australia, APAIS emphasises current articles on Australian political economic, legal, social and cultural affairs. Source materials include a wide range of periodicals and newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books in the social sciences and humanities. Overseas sources are scanned for material on Australian subjects. Contains over 213,000 records, from 1978 onwards. [Australian] (WebSpirs Database)
BAOD: GIBLIN Giblin Working Papers: Produced by the Giblin Economics and Commerce Library, University of Melbourne, GIBLIN lists working papers (also known as research or discussion papers) held by the library. Most of the titles emanate from major universities and research institutes in Australia, UK, Europe and the USA . Subjects covered include economics, econometrics, economic modelling and economic history, actuarial studies, industrial relations, finance and international trade Only papers published in the last five years are listed, as they have usually been published in conventional sources after that. [Australian and International] (WebSpirs Database)
Business ASAP: Business ASAP provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 1000 business titles including The Wall Street Journal, the Asian Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times of Canada, and The New York Times (Business Section). Plus the full text of over 450 titles. [American but it now includes those journals indexed by ABIX ] (Infotrac Database)
Current Contents: This database provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Cover-to-cover indexing of journal articles, reviews, meeting abstracts, editorials, etc. is provided for the over 8,000 International scholarly journals covered. Updated weekly. [American] (Infotrac Database)
EconLit: EconLit provides citations and abstracts for articles in more than 400 journals, books, and the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE). It provides citations for dissertations and articles in more than 500 collective volumes per year. It is produced by the Journal of Economic Literature. Year coverage: 1969 to current.[ United Kingdom] (FirstSearch Database)
Electric LibraryAustralasia: Articles from a broad range of journals and News Ltd newspapers also transcripts, photos etc. [Australian & international]
Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext: Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext electronic library of over 100 journals published by MCB. It spans subjects such as : marketing, general management, human resources, quality, property, operations, production & economics, library & information services, information management, training & education and engineering. Full-text is provided in both HTML and PDF formats from 1994 with abstracts for earlier years. [United Kingdom] (MCB Emerald Database)
Infoquick: INFOQUICK provides a comprehensive index to articles about Australia and Australians, published in the Sydney Morning Herald and associated publications: Sun Herald, Eastern Herald, Northern Herald and Good Weekend from 1988 onwards. [Australian]

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Last updated 2nd July, 2002
Please send me any suggestions for inclusion or reports of outdated links:
Ilona Eberle : e-mail: eberle@usq.edu.au