Southeastern Louisiana University

Economics Subject Guide

Encyclopedias

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Managerial Economics
--Reference Stacks-- HD 30.22 .B55 1997; also available online
An Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics
--Reference Stacks-- HB 172.5 .E55 2002
An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics: A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after Economists
--online --netLibrary e-book
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
--Reference Stacks-- H 41 .I58 2001 (26 vol.)
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics
--Reference Stacks-- HB 61 .E55 1994
The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics
--Reference Stacks-- HB 61 .N49 1987 (4 vol.)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
--Reference Stacks-- HC 15 .O94 2003 (5 vol.)
Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy
--online-- netLibrary e-book
Survey of Social Science. Economics Series
--Reference Stacks-- HB 61 .S94 1991 (5 vol.)

Dictionaries

A Dictionary of Economics
--Reference Stacks-- HB 61 .B554 1997
Dictionary of Economics
--Reference Stacks-- HB 61 .R92 1992

Style Manuals

Chicago Manual of Style
--Ready Reference-- Z 253 .C57 2003
--Baton Rouge Nursing Library-- Z 253 .C57 2003
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
--Ready Reference-- BF 76.7 .P83
APA Style Guide to Electronic References, 2007
--Ready Reference-- PN171. F56 .A63 2007; also available online
How to Cite Resources
-- online

Biographies

A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists
--online-- netLibrary e-book
Biography Resource Center-- Provides full-text biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Distinguished Women Economists
--4th floor Stacks-- HB 76 .C53 2004
Fifty Major Economists
--online-- netLibrary e-book
Who's Who in Economics
--online-- netLibrary e-book
Who's Who in Finance and Industry
--Reference Stacks-- HF 3023 .A2 W5 31st 2000/01

Indexes and Databases

Business Source Complete-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of articles from magazines and scholarly journals, industrial/technological periodicals, company and industry profiles, country economic data, accounting standards, encyclopedic dictionaries and handbooks.

CountryWatch.com-- Provides Country Reviews, 50-100 page reports with demographic, historical, political, economic, business and environmental background and contemporary issues for 191 countries and Country Wire, daily news from 12 international news services.

EconLit-- Indexes and abstracts international economic literature including journals, books, dissertations, and working papers.

JSTOR-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science and population studies.

LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic-- Provides full-text of: U.S. and international newspapers; business, industry and market news; accounting literature; company financial reports and profiles; legal news and reviews; state and federal case law; state, U.S., Canadian, Commonwealth and E.U. codes and regulations; patents; medical news and journals; state and country profiles; biographies and quotations; polls and surveys and a world almanac.

Statistical-- Provides summaries and full-text statistical information on all subjects.

STAT-USA-- Provides full-text economic and financial statistics and international trade information.

Wall Street Journal-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of selected articles from The Wall Street Journal from 1984 to present.

Internet Sites

Resources for Economists on the Internet -- The American Economic Association's guide to Internet resources contains links to approximately 1500 recommended sites.

B&E Datalinks -- The Business and Economics (B&E) Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) provides links to several hundred Internet sources of current and historic economic data.

EDIRC -- This site provides an international directory of economic associations, government agencies and educational institutions.

Econdata.net -- Created by 2 economic consulting firms, this directory provides links to free and fee-based sources of state and regional socioeconomic data.

Federal Reserve Information -- The University of Chicago provides links to the Federal Reserve time-series database and individual Fed sites.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics -- This site provides a database of approximately 300,000 working papers, journal articles and software components in economics.