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A guide to resources focusing on general business and specialized business topics

Recommended Databases: Economics
(includes both fee-based and free sources)

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Business Information Center (opens in new window) via NC LIVE - provides access to business magazines such as the Economist and NBER Digest.

EconLit  (opens in new window) - contains worldwide economic literature. Has article citations from over 400 major economic journals since 1972. Includes indexing of some book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

Fed in Print (opens in new window) - index to all of the Federal Reserve Board and Bank's publications with selected full text in more recent years.

JSTOR  (opens in new window) - provides access to the journals published by the American Economics Association.

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers (opens in new window) - working papers covering topics in macro and microeconomics, labor economics, and welfare economics. 

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) (opens in new window) - database of economic working papers, journal articles, and software components.

World Development Indicators (opens in new window) - database maintained by the World Bank comprised of statistics for the G20 economies, and for major, operationally significant developing economies.

Magazines, Journals, & Newsletters: Economics (Subject-Specific Sources)

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Dictionaries & Directories: Economics

Associations & Organizations: Economics

American Economic Association (opens in new window) - publishes historical and statistical studies of actual conditions of industrial life through its journals.

Federal Reserve System (opens in new window) -  as the central bank of the United States, it directs the nation's monetary policy by influencing money and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of full employment and stable prices.

National Bureau of Economic Research (opens in new window) - is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

The World Bank (opens in new window) - offers loans, advice, and an array of customized resources to more than 100 developing countries and countries in transition.