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Great Links to Links for Linking to Economic Information:

Resources for Economists on the Internet (Bill Goffe): http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/sc.html
Hal Varian’s Guide to the net: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/pages/interesting.html
Finance Sites: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/journal/jofsites.htm#edres

Think Tanks:

National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER): http://www.nber.org (A virtual think tank)
NBER Working Papers (This is a wonderful collection of National Bureau working papers on a rich range of topics.) http://www.nber.org/wpcites.html or http://papers.nber.org/jel/
Brookings Institution: http://www.brookings.org/es/es_hp.htm
American Enterprise Institute: http://www.aei.org/
Cato Institute: http://www.cato.org/
Santa Fe Institute Home Page http://www.santafe.edu/ (Type Economics in the Search edit box to find economic publications, including "The Economy as an Evolving Complex System")
Tax Policy Center (Joint Brookings - Urban Institute undertaking): http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/home/
Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org/

Organizations:

American Economic Association: http://www.aeaweb.org/
Econometric Society: http://www.econometricsociety.org/es/
Financial Accounting Standards Board: http://www.fasb.org/
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science: http://www.informs.org/
Society of Actuaries: http://www.soa.org/ Be an Actuary: http://www.beanactuary.org/
National Association of Business Economists: http://www.nabe.com/

Economists:

Nobel Prize in Economics http://castle.uvic.ca/econ/nobel.html
History of Economic Thought Web Site: http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/home.htm
Economists on the World Wide Web: http://eclab.econ.pdx.edu/ecwww/
American Economic Association Members: http://www.eco.utexas.edu/AEA/

Helpful Sources:

Glossary of Economic Terms, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: http://www.frbsf.org/tools/glossary/glossReg.html#top
Encyclopedia of Economic and business history: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/
Journals listed in Econ Lit: http://www.econlit.org/journal_list.html
Working papers in Economics http://ideas.uqam.ca/
Social Science Research Network home page http://hq.ssrn.com/
List of Economic Journals: http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/journals.html
Social Science Computer Review home page: http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/sscore/sscore.htm

Web pages on Government:

Federal Gateway (links to U.S. government agencies): http://fedgate.org/
Congressional Budget Office: http://www.cbo.gov/
Publications of the Council of Economic Advisers: http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/pubs.html
Economic Report of the President: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/index.html
Board of Governors of the Fed: http://www.federalreserve.gov/
The Bureau of Labor Statistics: Own data plus links not only for statistics and information from more than 70 agencies in the U.S. Federal Government but also to similar sites for dozens of countries around the world: http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm
Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of job opportunities in different professions): http://www.bls.gov/oco/ ,
Bureau of the Public Debt: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/
Internal Revenue Service: http://www.irs.gov/

Learning Resources and Interesting Stuff:

Even Adam Smith would have enjoyed these jokes: http://netec.wustl.edu/JokEc.html
Supreme Court Antitrust Debates: http://www.ripon.edu/Faculty/bowenj/antitrust/intro.htm
Economics -LTSN: the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Economics provides a range of free services that support university teachers of Economics in the United Kingdom: http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/
Links to on-line resources in economics (UK focus) http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/links/
Charles Holt on Experimental Economics and Game Theory: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~cah2k/home.html
MathWorld (a mathematics encyclopedia sponsored by Wolfram, the makers of Mathematica ): http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Pedagogical Resources:

Economic Web Pages for College and University Teaching: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teach-ec.htm
Just in time Syllabus: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/jits.htm
Computer Aided Instruction (Betty Blecha, SF State): http://online.sfsu.edu/~bjblecha/welcome.html
Economics Learning Centre and Support Network: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ctiecon/teaching/

Simulations and Predictions:

Iowa Electronic Market (IEM predictions of Presidential vote): http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem;
What's traded on the IEM: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/trmanual/IEMManual_2.html#What
Fair Model (Forecast the economy and the Presidential vote; how the macroeconomy works) : http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/
Project Link (global econometric forecasting model): http://www.un.org/esa/analysis/link/
Simulate the effects of expenditure and tax adjustments on the Federal Budget: http://www.budgetsim.org/nbs/
Macroeconometric Models and related web sites: http://www.modler.com/Mod_Links.html

Discussion and Opinion:

Learning & Teacher Support Network list: http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/links/discussion.htm
Economic Policy Debates: http://www.swcollege.com/bef/econ_debate_main.html
Project Syndicate (Monthly commentary by such notables as MIT's Olivier Blanchard, Berkeley's Brad DeLong, Columbia's Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz, Harvard's Alberto Alesina, Bocconi's Francesco Giavazzi, and Yale's Robert J.Shiller): http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentaries/commentaries.php4?year=2004&quarter=1
Global Policy Forum: http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/
Dollars and Sense: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/

Data Sources:

Lots of data series, including much for the economies of individual states: www.economagic.com/
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Fred) http://www.stls.frb.org/research/index.html
Undergraduates: http://www.economicsearch.com/
Economic Information Systems (lots of state data) http://www.econ-line.com/
Graphs and Data – Excellent: http://www.yardeni.com/welcome.html
Digest of Educational statistics on line: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999036.pdf
Web sites for Short Term Economic Indicators (100 + countries): http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/link/statsource.htm

Return To Lovell's Home Page: http://mlovell.web.wesleyan.edu/

Last revision: October 20, 2005