Guides: Economics: Websites

NEWS

International Reports and Statistics

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
This site is run by the United States. All the information here pertains to the US perspective on world economic affairs. It does provides some useful facts but, overall, this site is very limited.
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
This is a site for those studying the ASEAN as well as the Asian Crisis. It provides information on their policies, however information is very limited.
The Economist
This international magazine on economics, finance and current affairs provide a web site with information from their latest issue. However, most information is only available to subscribers at a cost. If the information you are looking for is not in the current issue, forget about it! Nonetheless, check this site regularly.
International Monetary Fund
The sites provide IMF reports into countries around the world, available for download. Unfortunately there are no longer statistics summaries on this site.
United Nations Millennium Project
This site provides statistics and reports on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It is a good site for information on contrasts in standards of living and the causes of inequality in the global economy.
The World Bank - Data & Research
This particular part of the World Banks sites provide data tables for countries around the world. The “Schools” section of the site is also good in providing background for these countries aits country data section.
The World Trade Organization
The internet site of the WTO provides information on their policies. This is a good site for those that are completing assignments on such a topic. Statistics are limited to“Trade Statistics”.

Agencies and Professional Organizations

The American Economic Association
Purpose: The encouragement of economic research, especially the historical and statistical study of the actual conditions of industrial life.
The issue of publications on economic subjects.
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.
The Association for Social Economics
Seeking to promote high quality research in the broadly defined area of social economics, and to advance scholarly research and writing about the great questions of economics, human dignity, ethics, and philosophy.
Economic Science Association
Professional organization devoted to economics as an observational science, using controlled experiments to learn about economic behavior.
World Economics Association (WEA)
The World Economics Association (WEA) was launched on May 16, 2011. It fills a gap in the international community of economists — the absence of a truly international, inclusive, pluralist, professional association. The American Economic Association and UK’s Royal Economic Society provide broad associations mainly for their country’s economists. The WEA will do the same for the world’s community of economists, while promoting a pluralism of approaches to economic analysis.

Economics Blogs

Economics-Econometrics-Macroeconomics

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Coursera
Free online courses from top 16 universities.
MIT OpenCourseWare in Economics
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Yale Open Courses in Economics
Game Theory ECO159-leactures on game theory and strategic thinking by Prof. Ben Polak. Financial Markets ECO 525-lectures by Prof. Robert Shiller.
Alison
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Economics Websites

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International Reports and Statistics

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Economics Blogs

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