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Disciplines & Professions: EconomicsWeb SitesAbout.com's Economics Directory The frequently updated “In the Spotlight” section features discussion of the economic impact of current events and interactive quizzes. There is a list of twenty-five economics-related subjects to help define your search. Academic Info's Economics Gateway Basic set of links will take you deeper. Choose from foreign and international economics, a section specifically devoted to Latin America, economic history, development studies, rates and indexes, and general reference resources. ECONLinks Developed to provide students with easy access to basic economic and financial information available on the Web. Geared toward students, the links contain a variety of resources that may be helpful in and out of courses. EconoLink User-friendly sites allows you to select from the following categories: best sites for content; best sites for research; best sites for innovation; best sites for journalists, activists, and students; and random economics sites. Sites listed within the categories have been reviewed and are annotated with a detailed overview. Open Directory's Economics Directory A thorough list of economics-related topics, directing you to a variety of sites suited to the student, scholar, and the everyday user. Search Engine Guide's Economics Links A first step in research, Search Engine provides 4 annotated links to comprehensive financial and economic directories, including Econo-link, which appears on this list. Useful if you only have a basic or undefined idea that you want to explore. World Wide Web Virtual Library: Economics Leads you to RFE, a site devoted to resources for economists, and WebEc, an effort to categorize economics information on the Web. WebEc contains a long and varied list of different branches of economics working in society. A keyword search through both sites is also a search option. Yahoo!'s Economics Directory Categorical index of issues in economics, with a concentration on those with the most current national and global economics focus. DatabasesABI/Inform (Bell & Howell, available through OCLC FirstSearch) This database indexes articles from professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines around the world. More than 1 million entries from 1971 to present, some including full text. EconLit (American Economic Association, available through OCLC FirstSearch and SilverPlatter) Includes citations for more than 400,000 dissertations and articles. Covers 1969 to present. Published by the American Economic Association. Print ResourcesEconomics. 6 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 2000. A six-volume set of general reference works on economic topics. Each volume includes diagrams and charts to aid understanding of concepts. Subject index provided. Suggestions for further reading included. Greenwald, Douglas, ed. The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. Provides articles on important subjects in economics and related fields. Entries appear alphabetically and include a list of references. Provides name and subject indices. Index of Economic Articles. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association, 1886-. Indexes more than 500 journals in economics and related fields. Part I provides an index organized by subject. Part II provides an index organized by author. Journal of Economic Literature. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association, 1969-. Includes articles and book reviews on economic topics. Full articles are included. Each article includes a bibliography. Published quarterly. O'Hara, Philip Anthony, ed. Encyclopedia of Political Economy. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 1999. More than 450 entries appear alphabetically. Main audience is graduate students and undergraduates entering the field. Takes a largely multinational approach to the connections between economics and politics. Shim, Jae K., and Joel G. Siegel. Dictionary of Economics. New York: Wiley, 1995. Aimed at students, businesspeople, and a general audience. Provides short definitions of key economic and business terminology. Entries appear alphabetically. |
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