Internet Resources for Economics

• "The Beige Book" -- the Federal Reserve Board's Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions.
• The ICPSR archive, (data available to Lawrence Students and Faculty through ICPSR Direct).
• Bureau of Labor Statistics -- BLS is "the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics."
  • Pointers to other statistical sources, federal and international.
• Economics Working Paper Archive from Washington University.
• Financial resources on the Internet -- pointers to data sources and more.
• Data and Program Library Service of the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Glossary of Social Science Data and Computer Terms
• National Budget Simulation -- from UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research.
• NBER -- National Bureau of Economic Research
• Penn World Tables -- The Penn World Tables currently comprise data for 152 countries and 29 subjects.
• VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources.
• World Bank Datasets
  • Social Indicators of Development, 1995
  • Trends in Developing Economies, 1994
• Yahoo's Economics Page -- a big list of economics sites on the Web.

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