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Internet Economics Links

General Internet Research links for Economics


by Mark Lutterman


Mark's Homepage

Some particularly useful sites for Economic Research on the Internet:

  • EconLit on the WWW. This is the major reference souce for economic research articles published in journals, books, and working papers in the last 20+ years. This site requires that you be a registered student or staff of the University of Minnesota. The site provides instructions for how to enter your U of MN ID information to access this powerful search tool.

  • The University of Minnesota Libraries Home Page. This is the point of entry to all U of MN Library on-line resources, including their on-line catalog of all book and journal holdings, all Indexes of all journal articles organized by discipline, as well as access on-line "Electronic Jounals" subscribed to by the U of MN, and various other resources.

  • "Terms and Conditions of Use". These resources have tremendously improved access to academic research in almost every discipline. And you can expect new additions and improvements to these resources in the future.

    Other useful Economic Internet resources are maintained by various domestic and internaltional organizations.

  • The World Bank Home Page (WB).
  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF).
  • The Official WEB Site Locator for the United Nations System if Organizations (UN).
  • International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
  • World Trade Organization (WTO).
  • United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
  • International Labour Organization (ILO).

    • For information about already "developed" countries see

  • The Organization for Economic Development.

    This link may be useful for comparison with "developing" countries, or if you think that "developed" countries` experience is relevant to "developing" countries.

    While no OECD country is amongst the "poorest" in the world, OECD does include such countries as Mexico, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. These last countries tend to be newer members and have considerably lower GDP per capita than the US or the rest of West Europe.

    Further, the OECD is considered to be one of the most reliable sources of international economic data.

    If the above does not meet your needs you may want to try your own hand at internet search engines:

  • EconLit on the WWW .
  • Other options for EconLit_Online,
  • Yahoo,
  • Lycos,
  • Infoseek,
  • Magellan,
  • or Excite.

    And you can also use the above engines to search Usenet newsgroups for information on your topic. Once you have located useful newsgroups you may find the specialized newsreaders like Agent make it easier to keep up with news groups. Agent is provided by the University in the HHH 40 PC Lab and with their home PC internet package.








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