Subject guide: economics

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Find articles

• Business Source Premier
  Full-text articles for over 1,100 peer-reviewed journals and 1,250 trade journals or business magazines
• ABI Inform
  Full-text articles from more than 700 publications with trade and industry information.
• EconLit
  The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit indexes over thirty years of economics-related journal articles, books, and more.
• JSTOR
  Full-text archive of the back issues of over 600 core scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
• LexisNexis Academic
  Full-text access to business news, company profiles, and financial information.
• Regional Business News
  Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 regional business journals, newspapers and newswires in the United States. Full-text is available for about 50 journals and 30 newspapers and newswire services.
• STAT-USA
  Provides current and historical economic and trade data.
• Wall Street Journal
  The United States' financial paper of record.

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Find books

• Use the O'Grady Library catalog to find books.
• Use Summit to find books that the O'Grady Library doesn't own.
• Use ILLiad to request books that neither O'Grady Library or Summit owns.

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Websites

The sites listed all offer a wide variety of business and economics-related statistical information, scholarly papers, white papers, and more.

Statistics & data

• FedStats (#1 Top Pick)
• STAT-USA
• B.R.E.A.D. Datasets at Harvard
• Electronic Data Center at Emory University
• Statistical Resources at the University of Michigan
• Statistical Resources at the University of Nebraska

Pacific Northwest

• Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council
• Oregon State Office of Economic Analysis
• Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Analysis Project

United States

• U.S. Census Bureau Economic Information
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room
• U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Economic Report of the President
• Federal Reserve System and data files

International

• OECD
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• UN Economics Statistics

Working papers (think tanks)

• The Brookings Institute
• Economics Working Paper Archive
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• National Bureau of Economic Research
• Resources for the Future

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Reference

• A Dictionary of Economics
• Find New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics