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) Citigroup's Good News, Not so Great
There seems to be a growing consensus on Wall Street that Citigroup's problems are behind it. The stock has been up recently, though at $4 the company's shares have far from rebounded. Three years ago, Citigroup's stock fetched $50. Nonetheless, Citigroup tried to fan those good feelings yesterday with some seemingly bullish comments from its [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: March 12, 2010 at 9:59 am

Lehman Examiner Finds Fraud, Probably
Should accounting tricks be added to the long list of things that caused the financial crisis? I'm not sure. Turns out Lehman was even more leveraged than we thought. A report out on Thursday by a court appointed examiner into what went wrong at Lehman Brothers finds that the firm towards the end of its [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: March 11, 2010 at 9:08 pm

Why Capitalism is Bad at Giving Advice
I have a story up today on the website of our sister publication Fortune.com. It is part of Fortune's excellent redesign issue. The story is focused on a study by Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard that finds a disturbing truth about financial planners: Experts have long counseled against using financial planners who charge commissions, given their incentive [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: March 11, 2010 at 12:17 pm

What's Worse: Stingy Banks or Thrifty Consumers?
There have been a lot of people blabbing on for the past few months about the new found thriftiness of the American consumer. The savings rate is up, and credit card balances are down. Well it appears, that that later piece of news does not fit as neatly into the thriftier American thesis as it [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: March 11, 2010 at 4:55 am

The Economy Is Improving, But...
The stock market is rising, though on very light volume. The economy is growing, though most observers are uncomfortable that fiscal stimulus accounts for some —or much—of the gusto. Then there are complex issues aplenty to flummox forecasters, such as the hope that the U.S. export growth can make this recovery sustainable, tempered by concern [...]

Source: The Curious Capitalist Posted: March 10, 2010 at 10:00 am

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