Economic Information

• Bureau of Economic Analysis - Homepage of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that provides information about the U.S. economy and its competitive position such as the GDP and economic accounts data.
  
  
• Business and Economic Datalinks - Directory of links to economics and financial data and is sponsored by the Business and Economics (B&E) Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
  
  
• Consumer Price Index - Consumer Price Index tables provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  
  
• County Business Patterns - Annual series that provides sub-national economic data by industry and provides information about the economic activity of small areas, economic changes over time, and market potential.
  
  
• Economagic: Economic Time Series Page - Directory of free economic time series data useful for economic research and forecasting.  The site provides data sets of macroeconomic data for the U.S. as a whole as well as employment data by local areas including state, county, MSA, cities, and towns.
  
  
• Economic Growth Resources - Directory of resources for researchers studying economic growth maintained by Jonathan Temple and hosted by the University of Bristol.
  
  
• Economic Research Service (ERS) - Homepage of the Economic Research Service, the main source of economic information and research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  The site provides data about topics like farm financial and risk management; farm structure, income, and performance; and farm/rural finance and tax.
  
  
• Economic Statistics Briefing Room - Homepage of the Economic Statistics Briefing Room, a service of the U.S. White House that provides easy access to current Federal economic indicators.  The information included on the site is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies.
  
  
• Economist - Online version of the Economist magazine that provides free full-text access to articles in the current issue.
  
  
• Economy at a Glance - Collection of national, regional, and state economic data series provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.  The site provides current data as well as historical data for the past 10 years.
  
  
• Economy.com - Collection of worldwide economic information including analytical reports that cover topics in industry, macroeconomic, regional, and international; historical data reports that cover all states and U.S. metropolitan areas; and specialized forecast reports that cover detailed employment and occupation trends.
  
  
• Far Eastern Economic Review - Online version of the Economist magazine that provides free full-text access to articles in the current issue.
  
  
• Fed in Print - Index to Federal Reserve economic research.
  
  
• History of Economic Thought - Collection of texts in the history of economic thought provided by Rod Hay and is hosted by McMaster University.
  
  
• Index of Economic Freedom - Online version of the Index of Economic Freedom, a reference guide to the world's economies that includes country-by-country analyses and up-to-date data on foreign investment codes, taxes, tariffs, banking regulations, monetary policy, black markets, etc.  Users can search by country/region and policy factor and can sort by rank.
  
  
• Inflation Calculators - Collection of historical inflation calculators including a Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation calculator, a Employment Cost Index (ECI) inflation calculator, a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflator inflation calculator, a Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation calculator, a cost of living calculator, and a salary calculator.
  
  
• International Economics and Business - Directory of web resources maintained by Dr. Daniel Y. Lee of College of Business at Shippensburg University.  The site is arranged by subjects including trade, trade law, finance, development, statistics, etc.
  
  
• International Economic Trends - Annual publication of the Federal reserve Bank of St. Louis that contains comparative economic performance tables and charts showing real GDP growth, inflation, monetary aggregates, interest rates, current account balance, exchange rate, foreign exchange reserves, and government deficit or surplus for specific countries or regions.
  
  
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - Homepage of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan economic research organization.  The site provides online versions of many NBER publications and research projects as well as web guides for industry data and topics in macroeconomics.
  
  
• NetEc - International consortium of internet projects for academic economists that consists of information on printed working papers, data about electronic working papers, online resources in economics, and jokes about economists and economics.  The site links to RePEc, a large distributed catalogue of economics papers; HoPEc, a service to search for authors within RePEc and NEP, a series of reports on new additions to RePEc.
  
  
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - Homepage of the OECD, an international organization committed to democratic government and the market economy.  The OECD publishes resources and statistical data sources on economic and social issues such as corporate governance, energy, insurance, the aging society, macroeconomics, trade, education, development, science/innovation, etc.
  
  
• Resources for the Economists (RFE) - Guide to online resources for economists edited by Bill Goffe of the SUNY Oswego Department of Economics and sponsored by the American Economic Association.  The site is part of the WWW Virtual Library.
  
  
• U.S. Economic Census - Online version of the U.S. Economic Census provided by the U.S. Bureau of Census.
  
  
• Virtual International Business and Economics Resources (VIBES) - Directory of links to free online sources of international business and economic information that is maintained by Jeanie M. Welch, a Business Librarian at J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte.  The site includes links to full-text files of recent articles and research reports, statistical tables and graphs, and other portals (pages with links to other sources).
  
  
• WebEc - Directory of worldwide online resources in economics that contains a list of economic journals and links to subject areas such as economic history, international economics, labor demographics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, health/welfare, etc.  The site is part of NetEc as well as the WWW Virtual Library.