Economics
Selected resources in Economics
Topic Overviews/Background Info
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Credo Reference
Access to general and subject-specific reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and proverbs). Provides a graphics-based Concept Mapping option for topic exploration.
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eBooks (Gale)Search across subject-specific reference encyclopedias.
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Oxford Reference OnlineResource of reference materials such as dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Provides database-wide searching, subject searching across sources, and individual title searching.
Economic and Policy Reports.
Use these sources to search for reports on a variety of economic and policy related topics. The majority of them are nonprofit or government organizations with a particular area of focus. All of them publish articles based on quality research that are generally easier to digest than what is found in scholarly economic articles.
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Brookings InstitutionNon-profit public policy organization.
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BruegelEconomic think tank.
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Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)Quantitative data and reports on regional, national, and international economics.
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Congressional Budget Office (CBO)Non-partisan analysis for the U.S. Congress.
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FREDEconomic research from the Federal Reserve.
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Hamilton ProjectU.S. economic policy organization.
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New York Times - The UpshotData driven reporting from the New York Times
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)International policy organization
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Peterson Institute For International EconomicsThe Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the rigorous and intellectually open study of international economic policy.
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World BankThe World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog. Broader access to these data allow policymakers and advocacy groups to make better-informed decisions and measure improvements more accurately. They are also valuable tools to support research by journalists, academia and others, broadening understanding of global issues.