Economics Links & General Resources

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Biz/ed - (dead link)
"Biz/ed draws on a wide range of expertise to not only point to quality educational sites but to host primary materials, most notably case studies, work sheets and substantial datasets not found elsewhere on the Internet."
Includes access to UK Office for National Statistics datasets

• Biz/ed Question Bank - Economics - (dead link)
  "The Biz/ed economics question bank has a series of interactive questions on a variety of topics. The tests are organised under the same topic headings that are used in the rest of the learning materials section. Each topic has a choice of tests on different areas of economic theory."

Business & Economic DataLinks
"We provide links to econ & financial data sources of interest to economists and business statisticians...We provide users with a comprehensive set of links to data sites on the Web along with a user-based assessment of the quality of each site. We also provide users the capability to suggest additional high quality sites that could be added to DataLinks."

CTI Economics - (dead link)
From Computers in Teaching Initiative at University of Bristol

Dr. T's EconLinks
"...provides a comprehensive, yet concise, index of useful links for economists and anyone interested in economics, business and finance...The site facilitates the discussion of economic issues and the interaction among economists, econ students and investors via forums and chat rooms..."

Econolink
Topics include Best Sites for...Content, Research, Journalists, Activists, Students, Innovation, and the Rotten Lousy Sites.

econometriclinks.com
The Econometric Links of the Econometrics Journal
"It serves research and education in econometrics and related fields."
Edited by Marius Ooms

Economics Internet Resources - (dead link)
A useful quick and dirty listing of resources including sections entitled General, Issues, International, Finance, Data, and US Census
Western Connecticut State University, Dept. of Social Sciences
Maintained by J. Bannister

EH.Net Homepage
"...operates the Economic History Services fileserver and several electronic discussion lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields."
Sections include Abstracts, Ask the Professor, Book Reviews, Course Syllabi, Databases, Directories and more.

FED101
"...an interactive Federal Reserve System economic education web site using Flash technology."
- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Game Theory
A Resource for Educators and Students of Game Theory
Sections include: Lecture Notes ; Books ; Pop Culture ; Games ; Interactive Materials ; Quizzes & Tests ; Links.
By Mike Shor, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

How Gas Prices Work
Sections include: Introduction ; Guzzling Gas in America ; Where Your Money Goes ; Control of the Oil Market ; Domestic Supplies ; Lots More Information.
- Howstuffworks.com

Internet Economist
"A 'teach yourself' tutorial on Internet information skills for economists."
Written by Libby Miller and Martin Poulter, University of Bristol

Internet Resources in Business & Economics
Berkeley Business Guide No. 18
"By no means comprehensive, what follows is a classified listing of Internet resources found to be useful by the Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library’s reference and instructional staff."

Labor and Employment Law Resources on the Internet 2002
LLRX.com Feature, July 15, 2002
By Alyssa Rosen, Electronic Services and Reference Librarian, Stetson University College of Law

National Bureau of Economic Research

PBS - Extreme Oil
Companion website to the September, 2004 TV broadcast.
"Fifteen years after the end of the Cold War and in the wake of two wars in the Gulf and Iraq, all the world's easy oil has been found. Today, the oil industry has to go to extremes to find new sources of the asset that drives the world's economy and fuels so many aspects of modern life. EXTREME OIL crisscrosses the globe like the transcontinental pipelines themselves, exposing a wide range of issues -- and meeting people who wrestle with the dilemmas of how to ensure the supply we need, at a price we will tolerate."
Sections include: The Journey ; The History ; The Science ; For Teachers ; Resources.

rationalexpectations.com
OECD & Emerging Markets Economics
"...a resource for anyone interested in economics - students, teachers, lecturers, journalists, professionals, or just the curious."
By Ralph Lazar

Selected Internet Resources in Employment Law and Policy
Includes: U.S. Federal Information Sources ; State Information Sources ; Commentary, Newsletters and Databases ; Other Collections of Labor and Employment Law Links.
St. Louis University School of Law

U.S. Census Bureau

• Center for Economic Studies (CES)

United States Monetary Policy
Useful collection of links from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Topics include Resources for Teachers, MP Objectives, Instruments of MP, MP Indicators, and more.

WebEc
WWW Virtual Library - 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."
Maintained by Lauri Saarinen

Work-Family Researchers Electronic Network
"This network was established specifically for work-family researchers, and was designed to facilitate access to information and literature on work-family issues."

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