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Academic Sites

bulletThe New School University's fairly comprehensive index of the history of economic thought.
bulletUniversity of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty is a web site that answers many questions about poverty in the U.S.
bulletSocial Science Research Council is an academic group that looks at new research in the social sciences.  There is a good September 11 section here.

 

Economic News Publications

bulletThe Economist is a great data source on international economic issues that comes from a fairly neoclassical position.
bulletThe Economist also has a great online economic dictionary.

Ideological Sites

bulletCapitalism.org is a very libertarian site with an Ayn Rand perspective.
bulletThis site contains many of the writings of Marx and Engels.
bulletThe Heritage Foundation a classical liberal perspective
bulletThe American Prospect a liberal/keynesian perspective
bulletThe Levy Institute a Post-Keynesian academic perspective
bulletZnet a structuralist (radical) perspective 
bulletThe Cato Institute a classical liberal perspective
bulletThe Left Business Observer a structrualist perspective
bulletThe Union of Radical Political Economics (URPE) an academic structuralist perspective.
bulletMonthly Review a New Left perspective.
bulletThe Library of Economics and Liberty an academic classical liberal perspective

Government Sites

bulletThe Bureau of Labor Statistics a good source for inflation unemployment income and productivity data.
bulletThe Census Bureau a good source for income, poverty and general  population data.
bulletThe Bureau of Economic Analysis is a good site for GDP data
bulletThe Federal Reserve home of the famous beige book.
bulletCIA fact book is a good site for the U.S. assessment of other countries.
bulletEconomic Report of the President.   Each year's report attempts to review the state of the economy. In addition, these reports contain a statistical appendix which is very useful. It provides historical data on everything from GDP to exchange rates.
bulletThe Office of Management and Budget provides information on the Federal Budget.
bulletThe Bureau of the Public Debt of the U.S. Department of Treasury is a web site that will allow you to check on the size of the debt, who owns it, the magnitude of interest payments on the debt, etc
bulletThe Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis maintains a database known as FRED. This database provides one-stop shopping: information on the money supply, GDP, consumer and producer prices, employment and population, exchange rates and international data.

 

International Institutions

bulletThe International Monetary Fund (IMF)
bulletThe World Bank
bulletThe World Trade Organization (WTO)
bulletThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
bulletThe United Nations Human Development Report
bulletThe United Nations Global Compact Site (Attempt to define and encourage good business practices)
bulletMillennium Development Goals (MDG)

 

Political Economic Activist Sites 

bulletThe Redefining  Progress Site
bulletBusiness for Social Responsibility
bulletBusiness Ethics Report
bulletLinks to other corporate responsibility sites
bulletWorld Watch Institute 
bulletShared Capitalism good site for wealth data showing increasing unevenness of wealth and income
bulletUnited for a Fair Economy a site aimed at leveling the distribution of wealth and income in the U.S.
bulletThe People-Centered Development Forum. A group centered around the ideas of Dr. David Korten author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Post-Corporate World.
bulletEconomic Policy Institute a liberal/working class think tank.

 

Other Sites for Econ Links

bulletA good site by friend and colleague Tim Payne
bulletA good site by another friend and colleague Kit Taylor
bulletResources for Economists on the Internet one of the best and oldest internet resources.
bulletThe Dismal Scientist a good site for data
bulletCountry Watch Reports...some free reports
bulletEconomy.com a somewhat investment oriented site but some good data.
bulletEcon Data and Links a very good site our of California State University, Fresno.

Indices on Economic Freedom

bulletFree the World
bulletHeritage Foundation index of economic freedom
bulletCorruption data from Transparency International 

 

Other interesting sites

bullethttp://www.terrorismanswers.com/home/  A site maintained by Foreign Affairs about the ongoing conflict.