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Selected
Internet Resources for Economists
[Search Resources| Research
Papers and Books| Heterodox Sites|
Metasites| Central Banks|
Archives and Societies| Research
Centers| Statistics Resources| Newgroups
and Elists]
The following resource list is idiosyncratic.
It is primarily for graduate students and faculty in the
AU Economics Department.
Rather than read this page, you probably
should jump directly to
Bill Goffe's Resources for Economists on the Internet.
Goffe's document is by far the best jumping off point to surf
the Internet for everything relating to economics.
But, if you must linger here, the following
links will give you a taste of what is out there.
Search Resources:
Jump to: [ Jobs | Economists
| Other Search Resources ]
- In the DC area, once you have your degree,
you will want to look at the current issue of the federal government's
publication "Policy and Supporting Positions" (the "Plum Book").
- Inomics
offers a platform to announce job openings for economists, to
search for them, and to get an email notification whenever a
new opening meeting your interests arrives.
- Advertisements received by the Department:
see the "Jobs Opportunities" binder in the Department Office
(kept by the Lyndle Lindow).
- AU
Library's list of Job Search Resources
-
Job Openings for Economists contains the American Economic
Associations "Job Openings for Economists" publication on-line.
The bulk of the listings are for academic, government, and consulting
positions. Most require a Ph.D., although there are some for
those with a Masters degree.
- European
Job Openings for Economists (E-JOE)
- General
Listings
- The Chronicle of Higher Education's Career
Network, and
Academe This Week (listing for Economics).
- JobWeb,
searching for "economist" should yield several US Federal Government
jobs (sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and
Employers)
- FedWorld
has a listing of US Federal openings. Search for "economist"
or "economics".
- QM&RBC
job market.
- JobHunt's
Metalist
- The
Riley Guide
- Jobtrack
- America's
Job Bank
- CareerMosaic
- The
Main Quad
- The
Monster Board
- Online Career
Center
- The Universities
Advertising Group (UAG) covers staff vacancies in Higher
Education with an emphasis on the UK. The UAG, a consortium
of around 40 Universities, hopes that the website will become
the primary location to advertise vacancies in Higher Education.
Finding Economists
- The American
Economic Association offers the AEA Directory of Members.
You can easily search
the AEA Directory.
-
Directory of economists at NIORD, which has an
alternate ID.
-
WorldWide Directory of Finance Faculty
- International
Directory of Finance and Economics Professionals
- University phone books
- Econometric
Society Directory of Members
- Economists
with Web Pages
- Economists
On the World Wide Web
-
Quantitative Macroeconomics or Real Business Cycle Theory directory
and its associated
QM&RBC list of homepages.
-
RIE Directory of International Economists.
- American
Statistical Association Directory of Members
Other Search Resources
- Search engines include Alta
Vista, Excite (which
I like), HotBot, InfoSeek
(which I like), LYCOS, Magellan,
Web
Crawler and Yahoo.
- UnCover
provides keyword access to information from the tables of contents
of over 12,000 journals, listing over 1 million articles which
have appeared since 1988. UnCover includes periodicals from
all subject areas, but concentrates heavily on the sciences
and social sciences.
Searching UnCover is free. Article delivery is also available,
for a fee. You can arrange to have articles faxed or mailed
directly to you. If you choose this service, you will have to
provide a personal credit card number and the articles will
be charged to that account.
-
American Universities
- Non-US
Economics Departments on the Internet
- More
Non-US Economics Departments on the Internet
-
Finding people on the Internet
- Libraries
on the Web, including
University Libraries.
- Internet Navigation Tools
- United
States Web Directory
- World
Web Directory
- US
Economics Departments on the Internet
- Marr/Kirkwood
Official Guide to Business School Web Sites
- Finance
and the Internet
- Federal
and State Politics, University
Phone Books
- Quantitative
Macro and RBC Home Page.
- Acronym
Lookup
Web Yellow Pages
- Big Yellow contains
NYNEX's national index (millions of listings).
- GTE Corporation's SuperPages
Interactive Services allows search by category, address,
and phone number.
- Central Source Yellow
Pages is based on data supplied by American Business Information,
but only searches one state at a time at this time. Provides
an SIC code for each listing.
- WYP.NET had white as well as
yellow pages, with more than 100 million entries. Regretably,
it is shutting down.
Electronic Publications
[Books| Working
Papers| Fed Publications| Journals|
History of Thought]
AU offers the EconLit
database via Aladin.
One of the Internet's great benefits is
the ease of distribution and retrieval of research. There are
a few extremely common formats in which working paper distribution
takes place. The format of the file can usually be identified
by the extension to the file name: *.ps (PostScript files), *.pdf
(PDF files for Adobe Acrobat), and *.html or *.htm (ascii files
in the HyperText Markup Language). Software for reading and printing
most formats is available gratis. For *.pdf files, get the Adobe
Acrobat Reader for the Mac, Windows, DOS, or UNIX (as well
as with other freeware). For *.ps files get GhostScript
and GhostView. That should get you started in the following
archives. A document may also be compressed using one of several
formats: it may be zipped (*.zip), Unix compressed (*.Z), packed
(*.gz), or archived (*.tar). If so, you will need to decompress
the file before you will be able to read or print it.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
does not correctly handle named destinations in pdf files. Use
Netscape instead
when you are reading .pdf files online.
Books
Economics books available online are still rather rare, but here
are a couple ideas.
Working Papers
- The
Economics Working Paper Archive, maintained by Bob Parks
at Washington University in St. Louis, is the most complete
of the online economics working paper archives. Use it!
This service (provided by the
Economics Department of Washington
University ), and is devoted to the free distribution
of working papers in economics. There are 22
subject areas, along with a test posting area, a meetings
area, an area for programs (which will merge with
CodEc ) and an area for data.
- WoPEc
is part of the the NetEc
working paper, abstract and code archive at the Manchester computing
center. (Americans should use the
NetEc U.S. mirror site.)
- The economics working paper database,
IDEAS provides bibliographical
information about working papers classified by JEL codes. The
database can be searched or browsed by series. It includes the
popular BibEc, WoPEc, EconWPA archives, and many others, all
in one location. IDEAS is an initiative sponsored by the Center
for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment (CREFE)
at the University of Quebec at Montreal and the NetEc group.
- Oestereichische
Nationalbank working papers
- Cowles
Foundation Discussion Papers
- CEPA
Working Papers at the New School.
- Cowles
Foundation Working Papers
- IMF
Working Papers (Recent Titles)
-
Santa Fe Institute Working Papers
- World
Bank working papers.
-
Asian Development Bank publications
- Bank
of Canada working papers.
- The Social
Science Research Network's (SSRN) Abstracts contain
a valuable, growing archive of research abstracts.
- The
Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California,
Berkeley gopher offers working paper series for the Center
for Real Estate and Urban Economics, Center for International
Development Economics and Research, Business Administration
Program in Finance, and the Department of Economics.
- Milken
Institute working papers
- Barry Schachter's
list of downloadable working papers in economics and finance.
- The National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) offers searchable collection
of bibliographic citations of all papers published by the NBER.
- The Stockholm
School of Economics
-
Monash University econometrics department working papers.
- Rotterdam's
Erasmus University Econometric Institute Reports.
-
ESRC Research Programme- Economic Beliefs and Behaviour
- Library
of Congress
- Greg Ransom's
working papers on Hayek.
- The Ludwig
von Mises Institute is an educational and scholarly center
of the Austrian School of economics and classical liberalism.
Federal Reserve Publications
Journals
- AU subscribes to JSTOR,
which offers (printable!) full-text of back issues of core journals
in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. A wonderful
resource!!
- AU subscribes to many economics journals,
quite a few of which are thereby freely available online to
the AU community. For example, see Blackwell's
journals (EJ, Economica, etc, but sadly not Econometrica),
Elsevier's
Econbase (JME, JIMF, JEDC, Metroeconomica,etc, but sadly
not REStud), and Kluwer
online (JEGrowth, RevAustE, T&D, etc.).
- IMF
Staff Papers
- Bill Goffe has organized some
information on publishers and information
about economics journals, including links to abstracts and
instructions for authors. Blackwell
Publishers journals,
Academic Press Journals, and
Springer Verlag Journals. You can also subscribe to Contents
Direct to receive tables of contents from Elsevier journals.
- Econbase
publishes full texts of some articles published in some major
Elsevier journals, including JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
and JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS.
- The ECONOMETRICS
JOURNAL is now online.
- Quarterly
Journal of Austrian Economics (previously Review
of Austrian Economics.
- WebEc offers a list
of Economics Journals on the Internet Also see Bill
Goffe's list of online economics journals
-
Journal of Evolutionary Economics
-
Journal of Economic Education has decided to distribute
their issues FREE.
- Journal
of Memetics, and see
Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission Volume 2, Issue
1 - June 1998
-
MIT Press Journals, including QJE, REStat, and SNDE.
- Applied
Economics
- The IMF's Finance
and Development
- B›Quest
electronic journal for practitioners of business and economics.
- Journal
of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation| (from January
1998) will only be available electronically through the World
Wide Web. It aims to contribute to the exploration and understanding
of social processes by means of computer simulation.
- The Rand
Journal of Economics sells its articles online.
- Scholarly
Articles Research Alerting e-mails contents pages of any
Carfax journals (including Review of Political Economy Economic
Analysis, New Political Economy, and International Review of
Applied Economics) as soon as the hard copy is published.
In The Master Archive In The History Of Economic Thought
Sites with a Heterodox Emphasis
Sites with many useful pointers
Central Banks
- The U.S. Federal Reserve System
- Central
Bank Resource Center constructed by Bernkopf is an extensive
set of links to central banks world-wide.
Archives, Societies, etc
RESEARCH CENTERS
- Hoover
Institution, Brookings Institution,
RAND, The National Bureau of Economic Research, MERIT (at U. of Limburgh, Maastricht,
The Netherlands),Cato Institute, World
Bank Research, Santa Fe
Institute, and at Berkeley the BRIE on international economics.
Laurence H. Meyer & Associates sell consulting services
based upon a version of the Federal Reserve Board's own quarterly
model. Their model, called the WUMM (Washington University Macroeconomic
Model) is being used widely within the federal government through
subscription to the firm's service, which unfortunately most
of us cannot afford except as taxpayers.
The IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin is
a research center founded by George Kozmetsky and under the
directorship of Robert Sullivan. This site includes information
about IC2 research and conferences.
Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
There are many mailing lists and newsgroups for economists. I will
offer a very small list targetted toward AU Econ students. Catalist
offers an exhaustive list of listserv lists.
Mailing Lists
See Goffe's document for the best summary of available
mailing lists, along with a brief
introduction to the use of mailing lists.
- The
Young Economists' Discussion List (YEDL) facilitates contact
among young economists (typically those doing a PhD or having
recently finished a PhD). To SUBSCRIBE to YEDL, send an email
to yedl-request@hrz.uni-dortmund.de
where the body of your email message is simply subscribe.
- Post Keynesian Thought (PKT) is for those
interested in Post Keynesian economics and the historical, social,
and political questions that arise from Post Keynesian theory.
To subscribe send an email to Listserv@csf.colorado.edu
where the body of your email message is simply Subscribe
PKT YourFirstName YourLastName. There is an archive of past
posts.
- Progressive Economics (PEN-L) is a left
leaning discussion list with a bit more of a policy focus. Subscribe
with an email to Listserv@anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu.
where the body of your email message is simply Subscribe
Pen-L YourFirstName YourLastName. There is an archive of
past posts.
- Austrian Economics (austrianecon) focuses
on Austrian Economics, self-ordering systems, and the use of
knowledge in society. Subscribe with an email to majordomo@worldcom.com where the body of your
email message is simply Subscribe austrianecon.
Newsgroups
Statistics Resources
Societies
Government Organizations
Nonprofit Organizations
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