Books and Media

Library catalog
Call numbers: 330 - 339
Keywords/Subject terms: Business; Capitalism; Economic Policy; Economics; Finance; Gross National Product; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Supply and Demand; Wealth

Selected Periodicals

American Economic Review
The Economic Journal
The Economist
Journal of Economic Literature
OECD Observer

Databases

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Business Source Complete
J-STOR
STAT-USA/Internet

Reference Sources

EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
Encyclopedia of American Economic History 330.9E56
Encyclopedia of Business 650.103 E56
The MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics 330.03 M414 1986
The New Palgrave : A Dictionary of Economics 330.03 N532

Statistics and Data

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Economic Indicators
FRASER
FRED
International Economic Statistics

Web Sites

ArgMax: Economics News, Data, and Analysis
BUBL: Economics
Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
Resources for Economists (RFE)
globalEDGE (Information and resources on global business activities)
WebEc: World Wide Web Resources in Economics

Campus Links

Economics Department

Organizations

Encyclopedia of Associations R 061.3 E56 (Reference)
American Economic Association
American Institute for Economic Research

Updated on: February 28, 2009

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Economic News (Time: The Curious Capitalist) New column: The dollar in danger
My new column is up online and in the issue of TIME with our Secretary of State on the cover. It's about money.

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: November 6, 2009 at 11:35 am

Are finance professors to blame for the financial crisis (Part 2)?
Titan of academic finance Gene Fama writes in his blog: The premise of the Fox book is that our current economic problems are largely due to blind acceptance of the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), which posits that market prices reflect all available information. The claim is that the world's investors and their advisors in the financial [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: November 5, 2009 at 3:01 am

I want my FHA! (My FHA annual actuarial study, that is)
There's been a lot of chatter recently about whether or not the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is going to need a bailout. The FHA insures—but does not write—home loans, and thanks to the housing bust, the agency has had to dip a little further into its reserves than it probably would have liked to. [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: November 4, 2009 at 2:48 pm

What if the economy actually is getting better?
Last week I greeted a couple pieces of good economic news, the reports that GDP grew 3.5% in the third quarter and house prices rose 1.2% in August, with a shrug and worries that things might be about to take a turn for the worse. So it seems only fair to point out that, this [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: November 4, 2009 at 7:44 am

Almost $300 billion in housing aid (and only $60 billion of it for renters)
The CBO has a new "economic and budget issue brief" out on one of our favorite subjects, federal support for housing. The gist: there's a lot of it. I've written about this stuff before, but this time around one factoid especially caught my attention: The CBO estimated that about $230 billion went to supporting homeownership in 2009, [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: November 3, 2009 at 7:19 pm

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