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Web sites that you might find useful for this or other economics classes University of California, Berkeley Professor Martha Olney |
American
Economics
Association webpage for undergraduate students http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/students/index.htm
(Includes "careers"
page)
I highly recommend this
page.
So many
questions are answered there! Career ideas? Books to
read? Grad school tips? It's all there . . . and
more!
Resources for Economists on the Internet http://www.rfe.org/ A great comprehensive site. Data sources, and much much more.
Economic History Server Lots of info about economic history. http://www.eh.net
UCB Business & Economics Library list of electronic sources http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/digital_business_library.html
UCB
Library's
comprehensive list of international data sites Dozens and
dozens of options! http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_intlstats.html
UCB
Library's
comprehensive list of U.S. federal data sites Dozens and dozens more!
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/federal/gov_usstat.html
UCB
Library's
portal for government data of all sorts
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/
Prof. Brad
DeLong's Blog
http://delong.typepad.com/
Prof.
Mark Thoma's Blog
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/
Prof. Jim Hamilton's Blog
http://www.econbrowser.com/
Calculated Risk
Blog http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/
And hundreds more, listed on RFE's site
Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System http://www.federalreserve.gov
Click here for Data on the Fed
site
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (gathers CPI, labor, productivity data) http://stats.bls.gov
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
(GDP
data) http://www.bea.gov
Economic
Reports of the President, many years
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/download.html
Statistical
Abstracts
of the
United States, many years http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html
National Bureau of Economic
Research
includes macro-history data, searchable database of research
papers http://www.nber.org
UCB
Library's
comprehensive list of U.S. federal data sites Dozens and dozens more!
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/federal/gov_usstat.html
Non-U.S. Data (If you get "you are not authorized to view this
page,"
you need to setup the UC
Proxy server in your browser)
World Development
Indicators Time series data from 1960 for 207
countries in the areas of
population, labour, education, economics, the environment and much
more. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator
EconStats Variety of
international data, including macro data, http://www.econstats.com/
EuroStat
Data
about the EU http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/
Economist
Intelligence
Unit (EIU) Country Reports and Profiles Annual and
quarterly
analysis of the political and economic situation for more than 180
countries, from 1996 to present. http://db.eiu.com/publications.asp
Global
Development
Finance Detailed statistical data on government debt
for 138 countries reporting to the World Bank.
http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/global-development-finance
Global
Financial
Database.
Long runs of historical data on security markets and macroeconomic
indicators for over 150 countries. Includes economic sector
indices. https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/Platform/Login.aspx
JSTOR (text of past issues of
major economics journals -- must be on a UCB server or using UC
proxy server to
browse
journals)
http://www.jstor.org
Econ
Lit (searchable database of publications in economics since
1969 --
must
be on a UCB server or using
UC proxy
server to use link)
http://search.proquest.com/econlit/advanced?accountid=14496