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Research Guide:  Economics
 
Finding Background Info  [help]
    
  Dictionaries & Encyclopedias:
  Palgrave Dictionary of Economics  -- Online version of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed
  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
  Oxford Reference Online Database -- Economics & Business
  Business, Finance & Investment:
  Hoover's Online  -- Company, industry, and market information
  Morningstar Investment Research Center  - an independent source for stock & mutual fund research
  International Economics:
  Euromonitor -- Contains market research reports and company profiles.  Most reports cover consumer goods and services
  *new*  Country Watch -- Provides country-specific data including demographic, political, economic, business, and cultural information.
  Global Road Warrior -- Cultural, social, travel and business information about countries around the world
  Statistics:
  Statistical Abstract of the United States  ~~ online resource
  Direction of Trade Statistics (International Monetary Fund)       Ref HF 91 .I65 2006
  International Financial Statistics (International Monetary Fund)    Ref HG 3881 .I626 2004
  ...more reference sources are listed here...
Finding Articles [help]
Business Source Premier  -- Includes full text for more than 2,300 journals and dates back to 1886
  Proquest National Newspapers -- provides full-text access to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Los Angeles Times
  Social Science Citation Index  -- provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.
  ... more databases are listed here ...
Finding Books [help]
  Library Catalog -- search by subject, keyword, author or title!
Web Resources
  CIA World FactBook --  An excellent source!  Information that can be found on this site includes geography, people, economy, communication, transportation, military, transnational issues, and government.  Government information includes constitutions, national holidays, political parties and leaders, diplomatic representatives in the U.S. and from the U.S.  
  Liber8 -- (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) -- portal to economic information.  Offers (free) access to the International Economic Statistics (IES) database
  Ludwig von Mises Institute -- is the research and educational center of classical liberalism and the Austrian School of economics.
  ...more web resources are listed here...
   
   
   
   
   
 



Looking for Historic Stock Quotes?  (closing price of a stock on a certain date)Try this site from Dow Jones: http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/
 

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