Links to important web sites

Main economics links

• Resources for Economists on the Internet
• Resources for Economists on the Internet [UK mirror]
• WebEc [original site in Finland]
• WebEc [UK mirror]
• WebEc [US mirror]
• Economics LTSN [superseding CTI Econ]
• CHEER [Computers in Higher Education Economics Review]
• SOSIG [Social Science Information Gateway]
• SOSIG [US mirror]
• Biz/ed [Business and Economics Information Gateway]
• Inomics [special economics search engine]

Other useful economics links

• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund
• World Trade Organization
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
• US Census Bureau Economic Briefing Room
• H.M. Treasury
• Bank of England
• The Economist
• The Dismal Scientist
• The Scout Report for Business & Economics
• VIBES [Virtual Business and Economic Sources ]
• Yahoo!: Business and Economy
• Economics google web directory
• Economics at the Idea Channel
• About.com Guide to Economics [John S. Irons]
• Samuel Brittan (FT columnist)

Data

• National Statistics - the Official UK statistics website
• MIMAS Home Page
• ESRC Data Archive
• Social Science data on the net
• Data at biz/ed
• Penn World Tables (at biz/ed)
• r.cade
• Eurostat
• Economic Report of the President (with statistical tables in spreadsheet form)
• Stat-USA
• Economagic.com [Economic Time Series page]
• FRED [Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data]
• World Economic Outlook [data from the IMF]
• European macro data [from Manfred Gartner's "A Primer in European macroeconomics" website]

Bibliographic databases

• EconLit
• Web of Science
• BIDS
• IBSS
• COPAC
• BUBL [Economics]

Economics journals on-line

• The Economic Journal [also The Econometrics Journal]
• Blackwell Publishers
• JSTOR
• JSTOR [UK mirror]
• CatchWord [Applied Economics etc.]
• IDEAL [Academic Press, Harcourt etc.]
• IDEAL [Europe]
• Cambridge University Press [US site]
• Cambridge University Press [UK site]
• Kluwer
• Oxford University Press
• Springer [LINK]
• ingentaJournals
• Taylor and Francis Group
• ECONbase [Elsevier North-Holland Pergamon]
• Journal of Economic Education

Working papers and pre-prints

• EconWPA [Economics Working Paper archive]
• NetEc
• NetEc [US mirror]
• NetEc [Japan mirror]
• IDEAS [Internet Documents in Economics Access Service]

Current awareness services

• ERN [Economics Research Network]
• UnCover Reveal [CARL]
• Contents Alert Economics [Elsevier North-Holland]
• Kluwer Alert
• IDEAL Alert
• SARA [Scholarly Articles Research Alerting]
• Springer's LINK ALERT
• New Economics Papers

Statistics and econometrics software

• Timberlake Consultants [UK Office]
• Timberlake Cosultants [US Office]
• EViews [Quantitative Micro Software]
• GAUSS [Aptech Systems]
• Microfit
• Minitab
• Ox
• PcGive
• RATS [Estima]
• SAS
• SHAZAM
• SORITEC
• SPSS
• STATA
• TSP
• STAMP [software for Structural Time Series Modelling]

Mathematics software

• Mathematica [Wolfram Research]
• Maple [MapleSoft]
• Mathcad [MathSoft]
• MATLAB [MathWorks]
• Macsyma
• Scientific Notebook [MacKichan Software Inc.]
• GamePlan [software package for GameTheory]

Office software links

• Microsoft
• Corel
• Apple
• Netscape
• Acrobat Free Reader [Adobe]
• RealMedia
• WinZip
• PowerPoint on-line tuition
• LView

Electronic tools for learning economics

• The World Lecture Hall
• WinEcon
• Virtual Economy
• oo_Micro!
• Barry Murphy's Interactive Resources for Intermediate Microeconomics
• Essential Priciples of Economics: A Hypermedia Text
• The Teaching Economist [newsletter for economics teachers]
• Introduction to Graphs [Math Skills for Introductory Economics]
• on-line Regression Equation and graph
• Economics ltsn catalogue of Online teachng & learning material

• My quiz links
• Who wants to be an Economist? [economics quiz from about.com]

• Mailbase Electronic Mailing List Service
• cti-econ mailing list
• econ-ltsn mailing list
• Resources for Economists mail lists connection (by JEL category)

• AltaVista
• Excite
• HotBot
• Infoseek
• Lycos
• Northern Light
• Google
• All the Web
• UK Plus
• GOD [Global On-Line Directory
• inFind
• All-in-one meta search tool
• Search.com meta search tool
• Locate.com meta search tool
• Dogpile meta search tool
• Meta crawler search tool
• MegaSpider meta search tool
• ixquick meta search engine
• Colossus [International Directory of Search Engines]

Finding people

• Yahoo people search
• Yahoo people search for UK and Ireland
• WhoWhere
• Bigfoot

Building Web pages

• Jane Leuthold's article in JEE
• Advice from CTI Economics
• Advice from Wesleyan University
• The Columbia Guide to Online Style [Columbia University Press]
• Lots more links

Economists on the web

• Economists on the World Wide Web
• ECONOMISTS with WEB PAGES
• EDIRC - Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World [Canada]
• EDIRC [UK mirror]
• EDIRC [US mirror]
• EDIRC [Japan mirror]
• EDIRC [Russia mirror]
• rationalexpectations.com - Global Who's Who Economics Directory
• Google web directory of economics departments
• U. S. Economics Departments on the Internet

Assessing the quality of web resources

• The Internet Detective
• QUICK [The Quality Information Checklist]

Sources of information on the Internet

• FreePint
• TipWorld
• IT glossary [from Indiana University]
• Ask Jeeves

Developing your skills

• How to Write Effective Text
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• T.H.E. Journal

Reference tools

• Economics Glossary [at About.com]
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia.com
• The Web of Online Dictionaries
• The Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
• Research-It!
• ROGET'S Thesaurus on-line (from the ARTFL project)
• WORDSMYTH [Dictionary-Thesaurus]

Technical computing help

• WhatIs
• CNET
• ZDNet
• Square One Technology
• How Stuff Works

Information on viruses

• Dr Solomon
• Symantec
• NAI

Fun sites

• JokEc [Jokes about economists and economics]
• Dilbert
• Randy Glasbergen's daily cartoon
• Regularly updated cartoons