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AgEcon searchUniversity of Minnesota. Search for conference papers, governmnet documents, full text journals on agricultural trade, environmental economics, food policy, etc.
B&E DataLinksIndex of sources of domestic and international business and economic data.
Berkeley Roundtable on the International EconomyA small, interdisciplinary research project examining government policy and business strategy.
Better world links30000 links on global topics like peace, environment, human rights, third world, social justice, women, religion, education, economy, military, ...
Center for Global Development Data sets, reports, etc pertaining to aid, debt relief, development, health, environment, population, poverty, etc.
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.
Center on Budget and Public PrioritiesInformation on how fiscal policy and public programs affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.
Country InformationInternational Monetary Fund.  Reports, statments, speeches, statistics, etc. related to balance of payments, foreign exchange, inflation, unemployement, debt, prices, etc.
Data ZoneEconomic Policy Institute. Access to fifty time series related to labor market earnings and income data, most dating from the middle 1970s but some dating to the late 1940s. Statistics on the labor market, family income, prices, GDP, wages, poverty, trade, the budget deficit, interest rates.
EconDataUniversity of Maryland. Economic time series including national income and product accounts (NIPA), labor statistics, price indices, current business indicators, industrial production, information on states and regions, as well as international data.
EconData.netImpresa, Inc. and Andrew Reamer & Associates. Guide to regional economic data on the Web with over 400 annotated links to socioeconomic data sources arranged by subject and provider of data. Also lists its ten best sites for finding regional economic data. Additionally, they provide a 100 page User's Guide to finding and using socioeconomic data to analyze local and regional economies (in PDF).
Economic Growth ResourcesJonathan Temple, University of Bristol. Links to data sets, journals development resources, papers, bibliographies, surveys, researchers, etc.
Economic History ServicesBusiness History Conference et al. Directories of economic history societies, links to databases, book reviews, syllabi for courses, interactive forum, discussion lists, professional groups, etc.
Economic Statistics Briefing RoomEasy access to current Federal economic indicators.
Encyclopedia of Economic and Business HistoryEH Net. Articles, bibliographies, lists of further readings.
FairmodelYale University. A detailed computer model of the United States economy. Users can adjust variables such as the income tax rate -- to see how other parts of the economy are affected.
FINWebJames R.Garvin Ph.D.. Provides links to major finance and economics journals, working paper series, and databases.
FRASERFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Access historical economic statistical publications, release, and documents.
Free the WorldThis website is a collaboration of 71 member research institutes whose purpose is to bring "topics of economic freedom into mainstream public debate."
Global Macroeconomic and Financial PolicyNew York University. Articles and news about the Asian crisis, international financial systems, financial sector issues, country specific economic analysis, background on exchange rates, current policy topics, recent academic research, data, etc.
History of Economic ThoughtNew School of Social Research. Brief information about economists, descriptions of schools of economic thought, surveys of specific topics. Incomplete but some good information.
Inflation Conversion FactorsRobert Sahr. Tables of Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation conversion factors to convert to 1999 (preliminary), 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, and CPI (1982-84) dollars for all years since 1800. Also includes graphs showing historical trends of price levels, movie prices, government spending, debt and deficits, election costs, minimum wages, congressional pay, etc. There is a link to Columbia Journalism Review's Dollar Conversion Calculator which converts any figure from 1800-1998 to recent year dollars.
Liber8Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.  Gateway site to international, national, and regional economic information.
NetEcWashington University. Papers on economics, links, etc.
Poverty NetReports, data, news, life stories, etc.
Research Papers in EconomicsNetEc Group. Links to thousands of working papers, journal articles, software components, book and chapter listings, and other resources related to economics.
 State of Working AmericaTables and figures from the most recent edition of this work that has been "prepared biennially since 1988 ... [and which] sums up the problems and challenges facing American working families, presenting a wide variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty." Selected chapters on topics such as wealth disparities and international comparisons are also available online. From the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Tax FoundationNews, reports, papers, speeches and Congressional testimony , 1973 - , concerning the burden of taxes.
WebEcHelsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, et al. Over 1,500 links, at least partly free. Searchable and arranged in 24 categories, such as education and teaching, methodology and history of economic thought, data, microeconomics, macroeconomics, financial economics, labor and demographics, economics of networks, journals, etc.
World BankInformation about economic development in the developing world, World Bank publications, etc.