Awesome Economics
A curated collection of links for economists. Part of the "Awesome X" series.
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Table of Contents
Studying
Courses
- MIT OCW Economics - Over 100 courses covering all major fields of economics. Courses include prerequisites, recommended textbooks, lecture slides, and assignments. Undergraduate and graduate programs.
- edX Economics - Introductory topics, few prerequisites.
- Khan Academy: Economics - Elementary topics.
Useful Materials
- Academic Search - Search across
.eduand other educational domains. These materials are more reliable than the big Internet. - Foundational Equations of Economics - These equations show principles behind "thinking like an economist". Graduate textbooks put these equiations in context.
- IGM Economic Experts Panel - Top economists reflect on policy-related issues. Some answers contain useful details.
- AEA Resources for Economists - A list of useful links maintained by the American Economic Association.
Research
Portals
- RePEc - Web services for economic researchers: bibliography, blog aggregator, new working papers, software.
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Web Services - A list of helpful services.
Articles and Working Papers
- IDEAS RePEc - The largest database of economics publications (2,000,000 items). Searching through papers is easier with Google:
site:ideas.repec.org <search term>. Index sources mentioned below. - NBER - Working papers by major researchers. Many of these papers get published in peer-reviewed journal.
- SSRN Economics - Working papers, no journal publications.
- Google Scholar - Searching academic literature in general. Features author pages and citation counters. If you look for economic writings only, IDEAS would be more powerful.
Data
Datasets
- FRED2 - 380,000 (macro) time series from 80 sources. Supports plugins for importing data into Excel, Stata, R, and others. Has a mobile app.
- World Bank Data - International macro time series. Has data import plugins.
- IMF Data - The standard reference for macro data.
- Quandl - Aggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software.
- MEDevEcon - Data related to development economics.
- Monetary Economics: Data Sources - Overview of macro data sources.
- OFFSTATS - Links to official data sources by country and subject.
Search
- International Open Government Dataset Search - Over 1,000,000 government datasets. When works, this service looks like this. Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error.
- Dataset Search Engine - Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google search operators here.
- StackExchange Open Data - If you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here.
- Reddit /r/datasets - One more place to request datasets.
Software
Writing