Economics Library Guide

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank has created a comprehensive Internet site for explaining its purposes and functions and for disseminating data it previously published only in hard copy.

Issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year.

This site contains both historical and current NIPA (National Income and Product Accounts) tables, state and regional data, and US international trade data released on a regular basis by the BEA. Data are available either in html or pdf format.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the federal government's principal fact-finding agency in the field of labor economics and statistics. It collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates important data to the public, government, business, and labor.

Paths to a vast array of information, including data sets, journals (including the Journal of Economic Growth) and working papers, literature surveys, mailing lists, and home pages of researchers.

An annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices.

This office in the US Department of Commerce provides a variety of trade data including US export and import data by country, region, and product, currently through 1995 in downloadable form. Lots more.

This site seeks to comprehensive source for documents necessary for studying the history of economic thought and includes an extensive and growing collection of original and secondary documents.

When it comes to information on the developing world this is the among the best initial sources to approach.

This site is an authoritative guide to print, microfiche, and electronic resources on the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

U.S. Government Printing Office with links to Government Publications

Organized in 1885, the purposes of the AEA are:
1. The encouragement of economic research, especially the historical and statistical study of the actual conditions of industrial life.
2. The issue of publications on economic subjects.
3. The encouragement of perfect freedom of economic discussion. The Association as such will take no partisan attitude, nor will it commit its members to any position on practical economic questions.

One of the oldest regional economics associations in the United States, dating back to a conference held in Atlanta in November 1928.

Since its formal establishment in 1974, the History of Economics Society has committed itself to encouraging interest, fostering scholarship, and promoting discussion among scholars and professionals in the field of the history of economics.

An international association of economists with common research interests in Latin America.

One of the oldest and most prestigious economic associations in the world. It is a learned society, founded in 1890 to promote the study of economic science.