Economics
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General Reference
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Economics and Finance. 3 volumes, HB63 .C22 2004/2005
Dictionary of Economics (Wiley) The Dictionary of Economics defines the vocabulary of economics, with over 2,200 economics-related terms, including new terms, slang, and examples.
Dictionary of Economics. REF. HB61 .B554 2002
An Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics. Ref. HB172.5 .E55 2002
An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics : a Guide to Laws and Theorems Named After Economists. REF. HB61 .E66 2004
The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics. REF HB 61 .F67 1993
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics. REF HB 61 .E55 1994
The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Ref. HB 61 .N49 1987
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History REF. HC 15.O94 2003
Routledge Dictionary of Economics. REF. HB61 .R92 2002
The Value of a Dollar: 1860-1999. HB 235 .U6 V35 2004 "Records the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Civil War to the present."
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Economic Indicators and Statistics
Budget of the United States Government. provides comprehensive information on the income and expenditures of the Federal government. Departmental and Agency budgets include current estimates, previous year expenditures, and projections.
Business Statistics. REF HC 101 .A124 (This title is now listed as "Inactive of Discontinued", for recent information, see: Survey of Current Business, Online This source publishes historical information on business indicators, commodity prices, the labor force and unemployment, foreign trade, and industrial production.
DataPlace Statistics presented by the Fannie Mae Foundation as a "one-stop source for housing and demographic data for the US affordable housing industry".
HUDuser This source provides comprehensive housing statistics covering topics such as equal housing opportunity, housing construction, mortgage credit, housing sales, occupancy, and construction.
Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics. Ref. HD8051 .H36 This source provides information the labor force, employment, productivity, compensation, unions and industrial relations, and foreign labor statistics. The most current statistics are available in the Monthly Labor Review(2nd Floor, Periodicals), published by the US Labor Department. Issues from 1926- are in the 2nd Floor Periodicals collection.
Handbook of United States Economic and Financial Indicators. HC106.8 .O47 2000 This source provides descriptions of the indicators, their derivation and use, the publishers or compilers of the indicators, the publication in which the indicators' values appear, and the publications which regularly publish or project the indicators.
International Financial Statistics Yearbook. REF HG61 .I57. By International Monetary Fund. Detailed financial data by country.
Periodicals
CPI Detailed Report. (Consumer Price Index) (2nd Floor, Periodicals) The monthly publication of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics gives the consumer price index for the US and selected cities. The CPI is also given for selected goods and services, such as food, housing, apparel, transportation, health, and recreation, tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, and financial services. Now available on the web, at CPI
Economic Indicators. (2nd Floor, Periodicals) This monthly publication of the Council of Economic Advisors provides information on US economic indicators such as output, income and spending, employment and wages, production and business activity, prices, money, credit and securities markets, and Federal finance. Web access available from 1998, at: Economic Indicators
Employment and Earnings. (US Department of Labor) (2nd Floor, Periodicals) This source provides information on employment status by age, sex, and race. It also provides information characteristics of the employed and unemployed, seasonally adjusted employment information, employment by industry, employment in selected areas, and hours worked and earnings nationally and in selected areas. Monthly tables from Employment & Earnings are available on the web.
Federal Reserve Bulletin (2nd Floor, Periodicals) The "Financial and Business Statistics" section of this periodical is the best source for current US banking and monetary statistics. Statistics are included for commercial banks, money market rates, government securities, credit, flow of funds, and international finance. Available from 1996 on the web, at: Federal Reserve Bulletin
Producer Prices and Price Indexes. (2nd Floor, Periodicals) This monthly publication of the US Department of Labor contains producer price indexes for selected industries, their products, special commodity groupings, and the output of selected industries. Data from Producer Price Index is available on the web from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Survey of Current Business. (2nd Floor, Periodicals) This is an important source for current business statistics which covers general business indicators, employment and earnings, US foreign trade, transportation, communication, and production. Electronic versions of the Survey of Current Business are availablel from the BLS web site.
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 10:29, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Census Information
2007 Agriculture Census
The Agriculture Census is taken five years in years ending in 2 and 7.
2007 Economic Census The Economic Census is taken eEvery five years in years ending in 2 and 7.
2000 Population Census The Census of Population is taken every ten years in years ending in 0.
Construction & Housing Data Part of the Economic Census, the Construction & Housing data include: new housing starts, value of new construction, etc.
Census of Manufactures The Census of Manufactures and Annual Survey of Manufactures are available from the Census web site, Annual Survey of Manufactures
Census of Retail & Wholesale Trade C3.255
Census of Service Industries and Service Annual Survey
Census of Transportation C3.233 This census provides information on commodity transportation (tons and ton miles, value of shipments, means of transportation, length of haul, size of shipments, origin and destination); truck inventory and use (number of vehicles, truck-miles, use, miles, model year, body type, fuel, acquisition and maintenance), and a public warehouse survey.
To find more information on the various Economic Census surveys and products, see the Census web page, searching for the specific type of information you need.
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 10:30, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Online Indexes & Databases
NOTE: These are subscription databases and require Bradley login and password for off-campus access.
EconLit 1969+. Journals, books, and working papers on economics.
ABI Inform. 1971+. Provides abstracts of articles from international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines on business and management, with some recent issues in full text.
JSTOR. Archive of scholarly journals including economics titles. LexisNexis Statistical. Full Text.
Stat USA. Full Text. Includes statistics from State of the Nation, GLOBUS and National Trade Data Bank.
All Subjects/Multidisciplinary Indexes and Databases
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 10:32, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Internet Resources
AgEcon Search University of Minnesota Library site devoted to agricultural, applied, and environmental economics.
Bureau of Economic Analysis U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis web site includes National Income & Product Accounts data.
Budget of the United States Government. provides comprehensive information on the income and expenditures of the Federal government. Departmental and Agency budgets include current estimates, previous year expenditures, and projections.
The Conference Board Business statistics, trends, economic indicators, and consumer confidence statistics are available from The Conference Board web site.
CBO Congressional Budget Office.
EH.net Economic History Services.
Economic Report of the President
FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
Free the World.com Economic Freedom Network site.
International Economics Gateway
The International Economics Study Center
Liber8 Economic information site from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.
The National Atlas of the United States A resource for raw data and map creation on the economy.
National Bureau of Economic Research Access to economic research working papers (access to full-text requires subscription or payment) through the NBER Digest & NBER Reporter.
Penn World Tables 6.2 Purchasing power parity and national income account data for 188 countries.
QM & RBC The Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle Home Page (QM&RBC).
Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE) RFE is the premier site for finding economic data on the web.
St. Louis Fed: Economic Date - FRED II Federal Reserve data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, supersedes FRED (c1996).
OECD The Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development is a membership organization of 30 of the world's largest economies.
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web A comprehensive, useful, and well maintained (by the University of Auckland's Library) collection of links to free, official statistics resources.
WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics.
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