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General Economics Guides

• The document, Resources for Economists on the Internet by B. Goffe, is a comprehensive guide to the economists' resources on the Internet. If you are not already familiar with it, read it first so you know what the main services are and where to find them.
• Economic Meta Search Engine by Martin Zagler

• Dr. T's EconLinks.com!
• The BUBL LINK Catalogue of selected Internet resources
• Economics section from Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.
• Business Education on the Internet (BizEd Net) is a free information service linking students, teachers, industry and information providers. The site contains a comprehensive database of economics resources, not only in business economics but in many other areas as well.
• Economics at AboutCom is a starting point for economics information with feature articles, web link library, economic data, and more.

General Economics Collections

• The Open Directory Project is a web directory that relies on a vast army of volunteer editors. As an example of different categories see the Open Directory - Economics section.
• Inomics Search Engine indexes information on economics related servers and services.
• UCSB Library maintains Economics and Statistics section in InfoSurf as a part of their services.
• World Economics Web Resources by Steve Gardner at Baylor University.
• Virtual International Business & Economic Sources (VIBES) provides links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge.
• Google Economics Web Directory.
• Economy: Economics section in Yahoo
• Social Sciences WWW Virtual Library keeps track of online information as part of The World-Wide Web Virtual Library. Sites are inspected and evaluated for their adequacy as information sources before they are linked.
• Social Science Information Gateway is an online catalogue of high quality Internet resources relevant to social science education and research.
• Internet Public Library Reference Center is a nice site for finding all kinds of information ...

• GOOGLE and Ask Jeeves

Economics Institutions

• EDIRC, Economics Departments and Institutes and Research Centers of the World, is a list compiled by Christian Zimmerman. The lists are browsable by subject areas and geographical location.
• Economics Associations and Societies are also listed in EDIRC
• Economics Departments in the USA are listed AmosWeb.
• Non-USA Economics Departments on WWW are listed by David Giles.

• Economics Departments with Ph.D. Programs in American and Canadian Universities (Including Agricultural Economics) is a list based on "Peterson's Guide to Graduate Education".
• The page Resources of Scholarly Societies - Economics is one of a set of subject pages at the University of Waterloo Library to facilitate access to websites maintained by or for scholarly societies across the world.

Economics Publications

Collections of Publishers

• Economics related Publishing Houses are listed at UVic.
• Academic Publishing Information from RFE

Economics Journals

• Economic Journals on the Web
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library of Electronic Journals provides links to the world's electronic journals.

• ELSSS, the ELectronic Society for Social Scientists is a not-for-profit organisation committed to: Increase competition in the academic journal publishing marketplace by providing direct and credible alternatives to specific high-priced journals; Introduce a fairer and more efficient way of producing, distributing, and using academic journals whereby the system that currently produces large rents being earned by some commercial publishers is replaced by a mechanism that yields lowest-cost access and widest dissemination by rewarding only those individuals who contribute to making high-quality journals, namely, authors, referees, and editors - with substantial savings for libraries and the academic and student community.
• Register of Leading Social Science Electronic Journals

Economics Working Paper Archives and Collections

• RFE information on working papers
• Economics Working Papers Archive is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics. There are 22 subject areas, along with a posting area, a meetings area, an area for programs and an area for data.

Economics Books

• The Elsevier Handbooks in Economics series website provides detailed tables of contents as well as introductions.
• McKinsey Quarterly is a pdf library of articles and research. The site is free of charge but registration is required.

Other Economics and Publishing Related Information

• REGARD is a searchable bibliographic database funded by ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) containing in-depth information on UK social science research. It is publicly available on the World Wide Web without subscription and uses keyword searching for maximum ease of use.
• The Historical Text Archive by Don Mabry originated in 1990 in response to the need of historians to have an electronic storage and retrieval site and to demonstrate the advantages of such sites for the study and teaching of history. The HTA provides original material, links to other sites, and electronic reprints of books and is organized by geography/nations and topics.
• Science Direct provides access to browse tables of contents and article abstracts from 175 Academic Press journals in more than 30 subject disciplines. Full text to subscribers.

Libraries

• Library Information Servers via WWW are listed in LibWeb

News

• Economy Watch is a list of current news links compiled at NewsNow.

• The NBER Digest is a monthly publication that summarizes four or five new NBER studies. Professional journalists write these summaries for a non-technical audience. The Bureau sends nearly 12,000 copies of the Digest each month to readers in government, business, universities, and the media. The NBER Digest is available to the general public upon request.

• Economic Principals is a weekly column of news about economics and economists.

• Worldwide List of Online Newspapers
• Newslink is a comprehensive set of links to newspapers. See Business news services listed at Newslink.
• Newsletter Access is a browsable and searchable international database of newsletters.
• Eldis news sources listings include major international services and news sources by country.

• BBC News | The Economy
• CNNfn Economy

• The Economist is the on-line home for a limited selection of articles from the current issue.

Communication

• Bill Goffe has a comprehensive collection of economics mailing lists.

• Bill Goffe has a comprehensive collection of economics newsgroups.

Economists

• RePEc Author Service (RAS) - the home for RePEc Person
• Economists with Web Pages by John S. Irons.
• The Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is awarded by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. More about The winners in economics are found at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Conferences

• Inomics Conference Calls
• Calls for Conferences and Workshops relating to Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycles. The list is maintained by Christian Zimmerman.
• Conferences with Econometric Interest list is maintained by Marius Ooms for the Econometrics Journal.

Jobs

• Inomics Job Openings
• AEA Job Openings for Economists (JOE)
• Job Openings for Economists US, (Academe This Week, Chronicle of Higher Education)
• University of Québec, QM and RBC, provides job related general links and a Job Market for macroeconomists.
• Academic Careers Online includes faculty, research, post doc, adjunct, administrative, and senior management positions at (community) colleges, universities, and research institutes around the world.
• Jobs for the Academic Community via www.jobs.ac.uk
• Advertisements of academic and related vacancies in universities (EU area) via www.academicjobseu.com

Miscellaneous Information

• The Post-Autistic Economics Movement began in France in June 2000, when a group of economics students, under the banner “autisme-économie”, published on the web a petition protesting against: economics’ "uncontrolled use" and treatment of mathematics as "an end in itself", and the resulting "autistic science", the repressive domination of neoclassical theory and derivative approaches in the curriculum, and the dogmatic teaching style, which leaves no place for critical and reflective thought.

• Jokes about economists and economics - JokEc
• Dismal Trivia - Not The Final Exam - Test your knowledge of the Dismal Science's major (& some minor) players. DISCLAIMER: Nothing here will help you in any way in any sensible discussion of economic theory.

• Project Gutenberg Master Index is filled with texts of old literature in full text.
• AmosWeb Economic Glossarama is a searchable glossary of economic terms.

• The Salary Calculator

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