FE133/EC152: Principles of Macro and Micro Economics
Block 1, 2008: Redmount & de Araujo
Library Research Guide
Finding books
The TIGER catalog is where you find books (and videos, government documents, microfilm, etc.) in Tutt Library and other locations at Colorado College. You won’t find journal articles here (or in any other library catalog, generally speaking)
Prospector - Colorado Unified Catalog makes it easy for you to get books (videos, CDs, etc.) from libraries around Colorado delivered to the Tutt Library circulation desk. This usually takes 3 to 5 business days, so plan ahead.
Periodical Databases to Find Economic Literature
- Academic Search Premier
- Coverage: 1988 - current
- Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.
- EconLit
- Coverage: 1969 - current
- Covers over 400 economics periodicals.
- Business Source Premier
- Coverage: 1965 - current
- A comprehensive index of indexing and abstracts for over 3,800 periodicals, most full text. Coverage of marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics, international business, and more.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
- Social Science Research Network
- http://www.ssrn.com
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Includes fulltext to over 198,000 papers.
- NBER Working Paper Series
- Coverage: November 1994 - current
- NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) working papers focus on empirical research such as the development of new statistical measures, effects of public policy on U.S. economy, and estimating quantitative models of economic behavior. The papers are searchable by subject and available fulltext.
Resources for Finding Economic Data
International data
- WDI Online
- Coverage: 1960 - current
- 500 time-series indicators for 210 economies plus regional and income groups. Retrievable data in spreadsheet format, display maps and graphs, and export data. Note: Access to this resource may not work using Internet Explorer 7. Try Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox.
The Economist Intelligence Unit Database Access- Coverage: 1996 - current
- Current political and economic analysis of 123 countries. If not automatically logged in, click on Enterprise Client Access to enter the site. Note: Access to this resource may not work using Internet Explorer 7. Firefox 3 may need special configuration. Try Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 2. If a security certificate error occurs, click Yes or OK to proceed.
- International Financial Statistics
- Coverage: 1948 - current
- Provides users with time series which summarize each country's balance of payments, with collateral data on its principal components (trade and reserves), and data on the principal cause and effect elements (monetary expansion and contraction, government surpluses and deficits, production, prices and interest rates).
U.S. data
- Economic Report of the President
- http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop
- The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- http://www.bls.gov/
- Compiles data on inflation, employment, unemployment, pay, benefits, consumer spending, productivity, import/export indexes and more.
- Census Data
- http://factfinder.census.gov
- Use the American FactFinder database to find current and past census data. Very old census data (back to the first census in 1790) are located in print in the Gov Docs collection, located in the South basement of Tutt. Much of this data is also located in the database: Historical Statistics Of The United States . Annual time series of the U.S. population, economic indicators, social conditions, and government, from colonial times to the present.