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Business Researcher's
Interests
http://www.brint.com/Sites.htm
Contemporary business, management and technology issues including WWW resources
and news archives.
Business
Resources on the Internet
http://www.gsu.edu/~librab/business/intlbus.html
Annotated lists of recommended websites on a variety of business topics.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov
Dept of Labor data and statistics on all aspects of the economy and labor in
the United States including the Economy at a Glance, Surveys & Programs,
Publications & Research Papers, U.S. Regional Information, and K-12 Educational
Resources.
CIA
World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Overview of each country's culture, people, economy, and government from the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov
Comprehensive database of statistics from the United States Census Bureau
Economic Research Service
U.S. Dept of Agriculture
http://www.ers.usda.gov/
The Economic Research Service is your official source for economic analysis and
information on agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural America.
Economics Working Papers
Archive
http://econwpa.wustl.edu
This award winning service (provided by the Economics Department of Washington
University ), is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics.
There are 22 subject areas, a test posting area, programs, and an area for data.
Federal
Reserve Board
http://www.federalreserve.gov/default.htm
General Information, press releases, testimony and speeches, monetary policy
explained, research and data, consumer information, publications from The Federal
Reserve, the central bank of the United States.
International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org
Information about the IMF, News, Publications, Country Information, Fund Rates,
Standards & Codes. IMF was established to promote international monetary
cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster
economic growth; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries.
Minimum Wage
http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/flsa
From the U.S. Dept. of Labor, provides information on the federal minimum wage,
including history, legislation, Laws and regulations for employees and employers.
MSN Money
http://moneycentral.msn.com/
Financial news, stock information, company research, etc.
The Nonprofit
FAQ
http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq
The Internet Nonprofit Center is a project of The Evergreen State Society of
Seattle, Washington. It offers information for and about nonprofit organizations
in the United States. This site also offers a compilation of hundreds of questions
and answers touching on every aspect of nonprofit management.
Penn World Table
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/
The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts
converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years
1950-2000. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power
and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current
price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.
Statistical
resources on the web: comprehensive economics.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecon.html
Comprehensive sites -- Business and industry -- Cost of living -- Federal/state
finances -- Finance -- Foreign/International economics -- Foreign trade -- Labor
-- Stat-USA.
United
States Monetary Policy
http://minneapolisfed.org/info/policy
Information on this page is divided into the following categories: What is monetary
policy?, Instruments of Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy Indicators, Federal
Open Market Committee (FOMC), Monetary Policy Objectives Recent statements by
FOMC voting members, Resources for Teachers.
United States Department
of Commerce
http://www.commerce.gov/
The Department of Commerce promotes job creation, economic growth, sustainable
development and improved living standards for all Americans by working in partnership
with business, universities, communities and workers. Find official reports,
news, and the latest economic indicators.
Wisconsin Department
of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection
http://datcp.state.wi.us
Consumer product, agricultural, food safety-related and business information
on everything from Wisconsin cheese industry to the Alice in Dairyland pagent,
Gypsy moths, and aquacultural farming in Wisconsin. Useful for industry professionals,
consumers, and farmers.
Wisconsin Housing and Economic
Development Authority
http://www.wheda.com
The serves Wisconsin residents and communities by working with others to provide
creative financing resources and information to stimulate and preserve affordable
housing, small business, and agribusiness. On this site you will find New Low-Cost
Rural Mortgages, Federally Assisted Housing Inventory, WHEDA's Target Area Maps
for single-family homebuyers, Affordable Housing Tax Credit, Projects by County,
Multifamily Products Downloads, Who's Your Regional WHEDA Rep?
World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org
WTO is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of
trade between nations. The goal is to help producers of goods and services,
exporters, and importers conduct their business. The WWW site includes general
information, conference speech texts, press releases, position papers, and more.
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Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home
or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off
Campus Users.
Academic
Search Elite
Wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities,
general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural. This comprehensive
database features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to
1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and coverage
of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times (limited to indexing) and The
Christian Science Monitor. It also includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed
journals.
Business
& Company Resource Center
The Integrated GBR Database contains detailed information on 448,000
U.S. and international companies, thorough histories and chronologies of major
companies, and in-depth coverage of over 1,000 major U.S. and global industries
including full-text essays, rankings, market shares, trade and professional
associations, and statistical analyses.
CountryWatch
Provides "country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192
countries of the world. " Includes basic information on each country, constantly
updated news stories, links to official websites, etc. Topics include government,
economy, investment climate, and social and environmental issues.
CQ
Researcher
Indepth analysis of policy, economic and political issue. Fulltext of
articles back to 1983. Great resource because the each issue is discussed from
various aspects or approaches.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology,
this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines for anyone
needing fulltext and indexed peer-reviewed articles.
General
Reference Center Gold
Use this general interest/business database to search magazines, newspapers,
and reference books for information on business, industry, current events, the
arts, science, entertainment, etc.
Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Unique range of international market research, including 4 million+ statistics on industries, countries and consumers, market share and brand rankings, and 25,000 sources of further research information.
JSTOR:
Journal Storage Project
A full-text database of more than 100 journals in the fields of African-American
studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance,
history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population/demography,
sociology, and statistics. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and
usually continues through the early 1990s. Eight journals have 100 or more years
of coverage; 35 journals have 50 or more years of coverage. Graphs, photographs,
and other images are included.
Proquest
Online Newspapers
Selected Wisconsin newspapers including the Wisconsin State Journal and
The Capital Times, plus The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune
and other national newspapers.
- Click on the title of the periodical to see what issues are available at
MATC libraries.
Use your browser's "Back" button to return to this page.
Economist
Easy to read and respected weekly publication in world politics, global
business, finance, and economics.
Forbes
Focuses on large corporations and the capital economy.
Fortune
Emphasis is on general concepts and issues related to industry and the
economy, management, personal finance, and technology.
Harvard
Business Review
Highly respected journal. Articles explore the current thinking of scholars
and industry leaders on all aspects of business practices.
Journal
of Economic Literature
Book reviews, research articles, and classified index to monographs and
300 periodicals in the entire field of economics.
Journal
of Economic Perspectives
Integrates economics research; analysis of public policy issues; source
of current economic thinking; readings for the classroom.
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A Statistical portrait of the United States : social conditions and trends
REFERENCE 306.0973 ST797
Edited by Mark S. Littman
The
Europa world year book
REFERENCE 319.184 EU89
Europa Publications Limited The McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of economics
REFERENCE 330.03 M147
Douglas Greenwald, editor in chief
Statistical abstract of the United States
REFERENCE 317.3 UN514
United States. Bureau of the Census
Household spending: who spends how much on what
REFERENCE 658 H842 1997
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