Economics Resources on the Web

Electronic Journals

• AgExporter -- A magazine providing tips on exporting farm products, descriptions of markets with the greatest sales potential, and information on export assistance available from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
• Agricultural Outlook (United States. Dept. of Economic Research : 1975) -- Main source for USDA's farm and food price forecasts; short-term outlook for all major areas of the agricultural economy; long-term issue analyses of US agricultural policy, trade forecasts, export-market development, food safety, the environment, farm financial institutions. Includes data on individual commodities, the general economy, US farm trade, farm income, production expenses, input use, prices received and paid, per capita food consumption, etc.
• Cost of Food at Home Estimated for Food Plans at Four Costs Levels. U.S. Average -- An estimate of the average U.S. weekly and monthly food costs for families and individuals.
• Crop Progress -- Data on planting, fruiting and harvesting progress and overall condition of selected crops in major producing states.
• Economic Reform Today -- Focuses on the day-to-day world of economic reform, the successes and failures and, in particular, the lessons learned. The intent is to provide practical information, particularly to decision-makers.
• Journal of Extension -- The Journal seeks to expand and update the research and knowledge base for Extention professionals and other adult educators to improve their effectiveness.
• Natural Gas Weekly Market Update -- Data on the natural gas industry and natural gas prices and storage in the United States.
• NBER Working Paper Series -- Full-text, online version of the print publication: Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research), with abstracts and/or bibliographic information for earlier papers.
• OECD Policy Brief -- A series of policy briefs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development intended to make publicly available the latest information on its major ongoing work.
• Oxford Review of Economic Policy
• Wheat Outlook -- Reports on wheat covering supply, disappearance, tariff quotas, area, price, stocks, inspections, trade and cash prices for leading classes of wheat at major markets.

Other Resources

• AgEcon Search -- AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance -- Compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public.
• Construction Statistics -- Provides construction industry statistics including building permits, housing starts, housing completions, new home sales, expenditures for improvements, and dollar value of construction.
• Earnings and Employment Data for Workers Covered Under Social Security by State and County -- Presents earnings and employment data for workers by state and county of their residence. Data show selected characteristics (sex, age and race), the number of wage and salary workers and self-employed persons, the amount of their taxable earnings, and the amount they paid in Social Security and Medicare contributions.
• EconLibrary.com -- EconLibrary.com is an online database that contains over 300,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of business and economics. EconLibrary.com's bibliographic references can be rapidly searched by author, keyword in title, journal or year, or combinations using the databases' Boolean logic searches.
• Economic Growth Resources -- Links to information on economic growth in journals, working papers, data sets and home pages of researchers.
• Economic History Services -- Gateway to resources in the field of economic history. Includes abstracts, book reviews, course syllabi, a calendar of events, electronic mail lists, and links to scholarly organizations.
• EconPapers -- Working papers in economics provided by the Economics Dept. of Washington University.
• History of Economic Thought -- Bibliographies and other information for over 500 economists, organized by topic and school of thought as well as alphabetically. Also includes essays, topical surveys with links, and course materials.
• Iowa Directory of Exporters -- Directory of Iowa exporters arranged alphabetically by product category.
• LABORSTA Internet -- Includes labor force and wage data compiled by the International Labour Office. LABORSTA includes labor data (employment, hours of work, labor cost), retail food prices, public sector employment, and population and household estimates for over 200 countries or territories.
• Marketline Business Information Center
• Mergent Online
• NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research -- The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. They have an extensive collection of historical economic data, including the Penn World Tables which provide macroeconomic indicators for countries of the world from 1950-1992.
• NIDRR Program Directory Database -- Provides researchers, rehabilitation professionals, and others in the field of disability with practical information on the spectrum of research projects funded by NIDRR from 1992 to the present.
• OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County -- Information on the number of persons who received social security benefits under the OASDI program and the amount and type of monthly benefits they received in each state and county for December 1997.
• The OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements -- Includes the OECD code, operations covered by the code, and a comparison of the degree of liberalisation achieved by each member country.
• The OECD Code of Liberalisation of Current Invisible Operations -- Includes the OECD code, operations covered by the code, and a comparison of the degree of liberalisation achieved by each member country.
• Office of Social and Economic Trend Analysis -- This site provides Census data and community development information for twelve states in the Midwest.
• USDA Economic Research Service -- ERS is your official source for agricultural economics. Provides economic and other social science information and analysis for public and private decisions on agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural America.
• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service -- The National Agricultural Statistics service, NASS, provides meaningful, accurate, and objective statistical information for the United States, its agriculture, and its rural communities.
• Value Line Research Center Online -- Includes access to Value Line publications covering stocks (large, midcap and small), mutual funds, options and convertible securities. Coverage includes 8,000 stocks, 7,000 mutual funds, and 10,000 stock options issues. In addition to the Value Line content, the subscription also includes stock quotes, company news, and market updates.
• World Development Indicators
• World Development Sources -- Contains over 6,000 final cover operational reports produced since 1994. These reports include Staff appraisal reports (SARs), Economic and Sector Work, Evaluation Reports and Studies, Global Environmental Facility (GEF) & Montreal Protocol Project documents. WDS also contains working papers since 1993. An e-mail service of news updates is available through an optional registration.

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