Economics and Business

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Economics and Business, generally | Labor | Career | Personal Finance and Investments | Consumer, Shopping

Economics and Business

• Biz/ed - Educational business and economics portal (U.K.)
• Business Navigator (New York Times)
• BusinesSeek - Portal, search engine
• CEO Express - Directory for the person in the corner office
• Intelligence Index and CI Tools - Directory for competitive intelligence (Fuld and Co.)

• Money - Past, Present, and Future (Roy Davies)
• Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE)
• Scout Report for Business and Economics - No longer updated, but the archives are searchable (Internet Scout Project)
• WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics

Business News:

• CNN Money
• Gallup Organization - Many of its polls have to do with opinion on the state of the economy
• Multinational Monitor
• Special Issues - Special issues of magazines, mostly trade publications (Compiled by Hill Reference Library, a business library in St. Paul, Minn.)
• Special Issues: Gary Price's List of Lists - Tops in many categories, mostly business
• Wall Street Journal - Most content requires a subscription
• Yahoo Finance - Financial news, stock quotes, other tools

International Business:

These sites have sections devoted to doing business in specific countries.

• Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES) - Sections for comprehensive (i.e., worldwide), regional, and national sites (U. of North Carolina at Charlotte)
• Doing Business - Comparative data on doing business in different countries
• Economist.com Country Briefings - Current news and economic info
• GlobalEdge - Economic and business information (Michigan State University)

U.S. Government:

• BuyUSA.gov (U.S. Commercial Service, Commerce Dept.)
• Export.gov - "Helping U.S. companies export"
• Foreign Agricultural Service - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture information on selling farm products overseas

Economics Research:

• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Preprints in the social sciences, mainly economics and related subjects
• BizSeer.ist - Search engine for academic business literature (formerly SMEAL Search, Penn State)
• RePEc: Research Papers in Economics - A respository for academic research

Data Sources:

See also

• Demographics and Statistics
• Business Statistics on the Web (Paula Berinstein)
• Econdata.net - Source for all kinds of data
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - The major industrialized nations
• OECD Statistics
• UC Atlas of Global Inequality - Compare countries and specific factors, such as economics, education, and environment (UC Santa Cruz)
• World Bank Data

United States:

• Economic Data (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Economic Indicators (U.S. Government Printing Office)
• Federal Reserve Board: Statistics and Historical Data
• Liber8 - "An economic information portal for librarians and students" (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
• National Association for Business Economics (NABE) links - Useful directory of sites for a variety of economic data
• Stat USA
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Economic News Releases
• Economy at a Glance - Data for states and metropolitan areas

Business and Economics Books:

• Recent Business and Economics Books Cataloged at the Library of Congress

Labor

• AFL-CIO
• American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
• Labor Research Portal (Institute of Industrial Relations Library, UC Berkeley)

Career

• Get That Gig - Includes "day in the life" articles
• Quintessential Careers

Job Listings:

• America's Job Bank
• CareerBuilder.com
• Craigslist
• Indeed
• Monster.com
• Simply Hired
• USA Jobs - Federal government jobs (U.S. Office of Personnel Management)
• Yahoo Hot Jobs

Personal Finance and Investments

Company Directories (for investors):

See also

• Company Directories (for consumers), below
• Big Charts - Stock charts
• Daily Stocks - Links to all kinds of stock news
• EDGAR - The database of corporate filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Hoover's Company Profiles - Public and private, U.S. and non-U.S. Some info is free, but you get more with a subscription
• Justquotes is a whole lot more than just quotes
• Motley Fool - Investment advice, often contrary to conventional wisdom
• Quicken.com Investments - Stock quotes and other info (formerly Networth)
• Security APL Quote Server - Stock quotes and other market information
• Stockmaster (was: Stock and Mutual Fund Information from MIT)

Corporate Research:

• Corporate Information - Company snapshots, top 100 lists, currency exchange rates, and links for industries and countries; more information on companies is available by subscription (Wright Investors' Service)
• Industry Resarch Desk - Extensive guide to doing research on industries. (Don't let the plain look of the site put you off.)

Currency Conversion:

Foreign exchange

• FXConverter - Currency conversion (Oanda.com)
• Xe.com: The Universal Currency Converter
• Yahoo Finance Currency Conversion - Includes many unusual currencies

Socially Responsible Investing:

• Social Funds - Compare mutual funds with socially responsible investing criteria

Interest Rates:

• Bankrate.com - Interest on mortgages, credit cards, etc.

Taxation:

• Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Forms and Publications

Consumer, Shopping

• Co-op America's Green Pages - Socially and environmentally responsible products and services
• Responsible Shopper - Large national companies and brands
• Consumer Action - Advice and help from various government agencies
• Google Catalogs
• Yahoo Shopping

Company Directories (for consumers):

Includes directories of products purchased by businesses, as well as those purchased by consumers.

• Get Human - Phone numbers and techniques for getting a human on the phone at major companies
• Kellysearch - Business-to-business directory with U.S., European, and Asian sites
• Kompass - Millions of companies and their products
• ThomasNet - Manufactured goods (Thomas Register of Manufacturers and Thomas Regional)

Reviews and Opinions:

• Become.com - Search engine for finding consumer guides
• Better Business Bureau - Check a business' or charity's rating and see if it has any complaints against it
• ConsumerSearch - Reviews of products from many sources
• Epinions - Users register their opinions about all kinds of goods and services
• Ratings.Net
• Yelp - Users review businesses in major U.S. cities

Product Safety and Recalls:

• Consumer Product Safety Commission - News about products
• Recalls.gov - Find products that have been recalled

Price Engines:

• Google Product Search - Searches the Web to find the best price on your product (formerly Froogle)
• Shopping.com

Automobiles:

• Cars.com - New and used cars, finance, advice
• Edmunds - Prices and reviews
• Kelley Blue Book - Price guide
• NADA Guides - Price guide

Real Estate, Housing:

• Trulia - Real estate for sale
• Zillow - Get an estimate on the value of a property

Classified Ads:

• Craigslist - Advertising and discussion for cities in the U.S. and around the world

Favorite Companies and Products:

See also

• Book Sources - Publishers, bookstores, etc.
• Bookstore Hall of Fame
• Music labels, Blues
• Fun Places to Buy Stuff

I  like these companies and products. Your mileage may vary.

• Brown, Fink, Boyce & Astle LLP (BFBA) - My accountants
• Moleskine - Nice notebooks that make you want to write something important in them.
  • Moleskine hacks and More Moleskine hacks (43 Folders)
• Papyrus - Greeting cards and more
• J. Peterman - I can't help it: I love the stories in the catalog
• Teva - The next best thing to going barefoot