Economics - Suggested Additional Resources

There are a wide range of resources available to Economics students beyond the obvious journals, databases and websites. Here we list a selection we think you'll find useful.

Audio and Video

• Econtalk
  Economics podcasts for daily life from the Library of Economics and Liberty in the US
• London School of Economics
  Links to podcasts and videos of Public Lectures by prominent economists and politicians at the London School of Economics

Blogs

• Econlog
  Issues and insights into economics from the Library of Economics and Liberty in the US
• The Palgrave Econolog
  collects data from hundreds of economics blogs

Government Sources

• The treasury site
  including weekly economic indicators, forecasts for the economy, Budget data, links to reports, reviews and legislation

Newspapers

• Nexis UK. [LexisNexis executive]
  Huge amount of news content, Select Financial Times as a Source under the Source Tab to search the FT
• RefDesk
  Links to US and international newspaper sites

Reading Lists

Reading lists may have been prepared by your lecturer specifically for your course.

•  Department of Economics

Statistics and Sources of Data

• data.gov.uk
  Working with UK Public Sector information and data
• Economic and Social Data Service [ESDS]
  A national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. Registration required as well as login.
• Economic Data available for free online
  Good for basic socio-economic data on countries
• EUI (Economist Intelligence Unit) Global Forecasting Services
  Global and regional economic forecasts, including detailed analysis and downloadable summary tables of data.
• FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data (Fred 2)
  Over 20,000 US economic time series
• FreeLunch.com
  Search engine and links to free data (mostly US)
• Globalisation Index from Warwick University’s CSGR
  measures globalisation in countries from the 1980s to the 2000s
• OFFSTATS
  official statistics on the web. Browse by country or subject
• PublicData.eu
  brings together open government data from local, regional and national public bodies in many different EU states (please note this is a beta version).
• If you are a masters or dissertation student, you may want to use Datastream – a very powerful database with financial and economic data from around the world. This has limited availability in the Business School IT open access area. Please ask there

Software

• Software archives and programming resource links from the Economics Network

Theses and Dissertations

• British Library EThOS
  A database of digitised UK doctoral theses offering free online access to theses of participating Higher Education institutions
• Index to theses
  This will help you identify UK and Irish theses
• Networked digital library of theses and dissertations

Working Papers

• NBER working papers [National Bureau of Economic Research working paper series]
• IMF working papers