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The following resource list is idiosyncratic.
It is primarily for graduate students and faculty in the
AU Economics Department.
See other pages for
software resources,
data resources,
or links to other economics departments.
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
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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.
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