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| Abstracts of published reports about new economic indicators, community economics, social auditing and social accountability. New economics aims to set out how a just and sustainable economy will work in practice | |
| Extensive datasets including census data, government surveys, macroeconomic, spatial and scientific data. | ||
| Collection of results relating to economic research and conducted by the World Bank, covering topics such as domestic finance, health and population, international economics, poverty, private sector development, transition economics, AIDS economics, and gender disparity. | ||
| Collection of academic editorials posted to the economic sociology mailing list, covering a range of topics including globalisation, the divide between sociology and economics, diversity and division of labour, and immigration. | ||
| Online version of the weekly social science journal, featuring research articles in economics, sociology, and political science, scholarly communication on topical developments, weekly statistical updates, and a monthly review of the money market. The full text of the journal is available from 1999 onwards, with new editions typically available within one month of print publication. | ||
| Contains time series which can be used to examine recent economic development in the OECD member countries, and regional aggregates, such as the EEC. Provides statistics on employment, prices wages, industrial production, retail sales, construction, finance, deliveries and stocks and orders. | ||
| Continuous household survey providing data collected from a sample of various households in the UK. Provides detailed information about expenditure on goods and services, income, including details about sources of income, possession of consumer durables and cars, basic information on housing and other demographic and socioeconomic variables. Available in SIR DBMS format. | ||
| Contains time series information relating to the manufacturing industry in various countries, compiled on an annual basis and dating from 1963 1994. For industry in the manufacturing sector, data have been collected for the following main economic indicators: number of establishments; employment; wages and salaries paid to employees; output; value added; gross fixed capital formulation; number of females employed and index numbers of industrial production. Registration required. | ||
| Contains time series for countries beginning in 1970. Topics include deficit/surplus or total financing, revenues or grants, expenditures, lending minus payments, domestic financing, domestic debt or total debt and foreign debt. | ||
| Library founded in 1896 by public subscription. As well as being the working library of the London School of Economics, it serves as a national collection of material for research, with around one million bound volumes and 28,000 journals. It is one of the largest libraries in the world devoted exclusively to the social sciences, with particular strength in economics, government and politics, international, political, economic and social history, international law, international relations, social policy and public administration, sociology, and statistics (economic, political, and social). | ||
| Annual reports for companies traded on the US stock exchanges, including most of the Fortune 500. Contains broker recommendations, summaries of business activities, industry ranks, earnings estimates, market commentaries, and balance sheets. | ||
| Provides an overview of literature in law and economics, offering a bibliographic database which is browsable by topic, and searchable by author, title, publication date, journal, and publisher. Literature reviews are also incorporated. | ||
| Tables of contents from this journal which concentrates on monetary theory, fiscal policy, labour economics, planning and development, micro and macroeconomic theory, international trade and finance, industrial organisation, the history of economic thought, and social economics. | ||
| Economic forecasting model, by Professor Roy C. Fair, which allows users to estimate changes in the US economy based on interactive input of different assumptions on economic policy. | ||
| Contains time series which provide information on the balance of payments for numerous countries and geographical areas, mostly from the mid 1970's to the present. Topics covered include transactions in goods, sources, and income between an economy and the rest of the world, changes of ownership and other changes in that country's monetary gold. | ||
| Subscription based publication providing access to PDF articles. Also offers annotated links to a wide range of econometrics sources such as departments and organisations, general collections and preprint services, software, news, conferences, journals, mailing lists, and statistics. | ||
| Quarterly economics journal, with freely available full text articles in PDF format from 1996 onwards. Topics include real interest rates, imperfect markets, product strategies, public finance, and environmental policy. | ||
| A listing of World Bank experts available for media comment on a range of issues including economics, poverty and human development, public sector reform, and the environment. Entries are browsable by name, or by specialist topic, and biographical information is given for each expert. | ||
| Quarterly published journal on market based economic reform and democratization. | ||
| Continuation of the annual Labour Force Survey. The main purpose of the QLFS is to provide internationally comparable statistics on the levels and changes in employment, unemployment and economic inactivity. The questionnaire collects general information about the household, family composition, housing and demographic characteristics. The main topic areas include economic activity and inactivity; employment, unemployment and under employment, educational qualifications and training, labour mobility and health and disabilities which affect work. Available in SIR-DBMS format. | ||
| NetEc is an international academic effort to improve the communication of economics via electronic media. It consists of: information on printed working papers on BibEc, data about electronic working papers on WoPEc, code for economics and econometrics on CodEc, Web resources in economics on WebEc, home page papers in economics on HoPEc, and jokes about economists and economics on JokEc. | ||
| Collaborative effort to enhance the dissemination of economics research via a database of working papers, journal articles, and software components. Provides links to a range of services which offer access to part or all of the database, identifies participating institutions, and encourages contributions to the collection. | ||
| Archive of electronic working papers in economics, organised by subject area. | ||
| Journal on applied research on financial markets, including the bond and equity markets, derivative securities markets, the foreign exchange market, corporate finance, and market microstructure. Offers contents, abstracts, and sample full text issues. | ||
| Independent research centre. Main areas of study include labour market and economic studies, local economic development, community development, needs assessment and evaluation, and public management. | ||
| Contains a number of specialised networks on various social science topics including economics, finance, law and accounting. | ||
| Main purpose of the LFS is to produce a set of national and regional employment and unemployment statistics for use by government departments and for comparison with other European Union countries, based on internationally standardised definitions. The LFS asks a range of basic questions relating to household composition, housing tenure, ethnicity and related topics. It also collects detailed information for each adult in the household relating to education and training, employment, unemployment and job search activities, reasons for not wanting to work, income, labour mobility, travel to work, trade union membership, current working conditions, hours of work and health. Files available in SIR DBMS and SPSS formats. | ||
| Collection of resources featuring links to the Web pages of labour economists, research centres, statistics on labour markets, datasets for labour market research, a discussion forum, and a selection of journals, online books, and articles. | ||
| Includes information on financial markets and services, research, currency exchange, and payment systems such as electronic cash and credit cards. | ||
| Contains time series for countries and geographical areas covering exchange rates, fund accounts, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, wages, production and employment, international transactions, government finance, national accounts and population. Requires authorization from the Data Archive before access is permitted. | ||
| Searchable database consisting of citations and abstracts of articles, editorials, and reviews from selected international social sciences journals dating back to 1951. Full texts of some journals are available. IBSS covers the core disciplines of economics, sociology, politics and anthropology. Freely available to UK higher education, but a username and password are required. | ||
| Alphabetical index of economics related journals, with topics including teaching economics, history of economics, microeconomics, quantitative methods, agriculture and business. | ||
| Organisation committed to promoting and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. | ||
| Project studying the economic causes and consequences of civil war and violent crime in developing countries. Outlines the motivation underlying the project, sets out the major topics, and presents working papers, relevant data sets, and the electronic Conflict Online Newsletter. | ||
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