R E S O U R C E S  B Y  S U B J E C T :   ECONOMICS

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Economics Subject Librarian

Sheryl Baster
Business & Economics Information Services
Room M25, Level M, General Library 
Phone: 373 7599 ext 88625
Email: s.baster@auckland.ac.nz

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Department of Economics

• The Library catalogue - search Voyager or the new Catalogue for books, journal titles and more held by the library . For tips on searching consult the Voyager online tutorial
  All books are shelved using the Dewey Classification Scheme.  This is the Call Number that you look for on the spine of the book.  Any New Zealand economics books will be shelved in the NZ&Pacific Collection on Level G, in the General Library. All other Economics books, with call numbers in the 330's, are shelved on Level 1, in the General Library.
  
  Selected Call Numbers by broad classification are: 
  

  330              economics      330.15          schools of economic thought      330.155        welfare economics      331              labour economics      331.1            labour force and market      332              financial economics      332.4            money      332.45          foreign exchange      332.46          monetary policy      332.6            investment and investments      332.6322       stocks (shares)      333.7            natural resources      333.79          energy      336              public finance

  336.201        taxation  337              international economics 338              production 338.521        price theories 339              macroeconomics 339.2            distribution of income & wealth 339.47          consumption 339.5            macroeconomic policy 339.522        government spending 382              international trade 382.3            trade policy 382.71          free trade 384              telecommunications & information networks 519.3            game theory

  
  
• E-Books - restrict your searching to the library's full text electronic collections see Tips for finding and using ebooks. Collections including economics materials include:
  • ECONOMICSnetBASE - over 500 full text monographs on economics, finance, and related areas from Routlege and other Taylor & Francis imprints. The entries on the Contents pages are the links to the content of these publications. All ebooks are linked to the catalogue
  • Oxford Handbooks Online - includes the Business and Management collection. These titles are included in Voyager.
  • ScienceDirect - access the Handbooks in Economics and the Elsevier JAI monograph series via the Books tab in ScienceDirect. JAI series titles include Advances in applied microeconomics; Advances in econometrics; Research on economic inequality; Research in labor economics; Research in the history of economic thought and methodology
  • SourceOECD - online full text access to OECD publications (books are in PDF). Not all titles are linked to Voyager, so you are recommended to search SourceOECD directly
  • SpingerLink -
    online full text access to a growing collection of economics titles published by Springer. All ebooks are linked to the catalogue.

  Selected ebooks on the web:

• Milton Friedman, The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Milton Friedman Interviewer: Gary S. Becker. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003). Audio download
• Smith, Adam (1723-1790) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Published: London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., ed. Edwin Cannan, 1904. Fifth edition. First published: 1776. Full text online, Library of Economics and Liberty
• von Mises, Ludwig (1881-1973) Human action : a treatise on economics. 4th ed. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Foundation for Economic Education, c1996.
  The text files copyright 1996 by Bettina B. Greaves who gave her permission for this online edition. More full text online works of Ludwig von Mises, available from the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Audio files also available
• More full text online titles of classic economic works are available at the Online Library of Liberty. Note the Copyright and Fair Use Statements of these works See also Economics Books and Essays Online 

• Te Puna - NZ's national database, use to check if a book or journal is held by another library in NZ, if it is NOT held by our library. Items may be requested using the library's Interlibrary Loan VDX service
• WorldCat - use to locate materials if NO holdings are found within NZ (Te Puna). Items may be requested using the library's Interlibrary Loan VDX service

• From Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Milton Friedman and more - from The Library of Economics and Liberty Internet
• Economists Portraits - from The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection, Duke University

• Collins Dictionary of Economics (2000) and the Penguin Dictionary of Economics (1998) in Credo Reference [Library database]
• Deardoff's Glossary of International Economics - produced by Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan. Includes diagrammatic materials for key economic concepts
• Dictionary of Economics (2003) in Oxford Reference Online [Library database]
• Clark, J. O. E. (Ed.). (2006). Dictionary of international economics terms. London : Les50ns Professional Publishing.
• Lowes, D. E. (2006). The anti-capitalist dictionary : movements, histories & motivations. London ; New York : Zed Books
• New Palgrave dictionary of economics (2008) an online version of the 8 volume 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, published by Palgrave Macmillan [Library database]
• OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms
• Pearce, D. W., & NetLibrary Inc. (1992). The MIT dictionary of modern economics.  [NetLibrary]
• Routledge dictionary of economics (2002) (2nd ed.) e-book ECONOMICSnetBASE (Pdf) Note: the entries on the Contents page are the links to the content of this publication
• See also
  • Economics dictionaries are shelved at 330.03 in the collection
  • Finance and banking dictionaries are shelved at 332.03 in the collection
  • Glossaries of economic terms from the Economics Network, University of Bristol

• Arnott, R. J. & Mcmillan, D. P. (Eds). (2006). A Companion to Urban Economics. Blackwell Publishing. [Blackwell Reference Online]
• Baltagi, Badi H. (2003). A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics. Blackwell Publishing. [Blackwell Reference Online]
• Beckert, J., & Zafirovski, M. (2006).  International encyclopedia of economic sociology . London ; New York: Routledge.
• Chenery, H. & Srinivasan, T. N. (eds.). (1988 onwards). Handbook of development economics. Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A; Elsevier Science Pub. Co. [ScienceDirect]
  
• Clements, M. P. & Hendry, D. F. (Eds). (2004). A Companion to Economic Forecasting. Blackwell Publishing. [Blackwell Reference Online]
• Cooper, C. L., Argyris, C., Starbuck, W. H., & Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (2005). The Blackwell encyclopedia of management (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. see v.8 on Managerial Economics
• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (2000) published by Edward Elgar and the University of Ghent - in-depth articles and bibliographies
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online  (2006) introductory essays on all aspects of economics, as well as some country data
• Henderson, D. R. (Ed.). (2008). The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. (2nd ed.) Library of Economics and Liberty. Internet  This work consists of " a broad collection of easy-to-read, punchy essays that give the reader an understanding of what economists actually think on a wide range of issues". David Henderson. Use the left hand index to view material by Title, Author, Categories, Biographies, Index
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences online version (2001). Scroll down the list of subjects to Economics and expand out levels to read  introductory essays on all aspects of economics.  Also at 300.3 S63 General Library, Arts Reference Collection, Level 1  
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (2003) in-depth articles  330.03 M71 General Library, Arts Reference Collection, Level 1  
• Pesaran, M. H. & Wickens, M. R. (Eds). (1999).  Handbook of Applied Econometrics. Volume I: Macroeconomics. Blackwell Publishing. [Blackwell Reference Online]
• Pesaran, M. H. & Schmidt, P. (Eds). (1999). Handbook of Applied Econometrics Volume II: Microeconomics. Blackwell Publishing. [Blackwell Reference Online]
• Porter, G. (1980). Encyclopedia of American economic history : studies of the principal movements and ideas. New York, Scribner.
• Samuels, W. J., Biddle, J. E. & Davis, J. B. (Eds). (2003). A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Blackwell Publishing. [Blackwell Reference Online]

Search Strategies - each search environment may look slightly different however core search principles apply:

• Turn your search topic into keyword and/ or phrase searches “ “
• Use the truncation symbol * to include variations on word endings
• Use field limits to set up ‘smart’ refinements
• Reorder display results to make it easier to view the latest materials first or the most relevant
• Use indexing or subject heading terms if available to help locate all relevant material on the topic

Most frequently used

Access to New Zealand literature

Media sources are a way in to materials not formally published. The Newxtext and Factiva library databases are good starting points for identifying the release of commissioned reports, surveys, and findings; and which agencies/ think thanks/ departments are involved with a particular topic. All of the following library databases contain NZ content:

For archive materials

For theses and dissertations

• Theses and Dissertations - search materials at this university or look for material worldwide 

Additional databases

• Academic Research Library - part of the Proquest databases. Economic issues from a social science perspective
• Academic Search Premier - part of Ebscohost. Economic issues from a social science perspective
• Asia-studies full text online - includes APEC reports
• APECLIT - from the Australian APEC Study Centre indexes published and unpublished items dealing with APEC and related topics
• Berkeley Electronic Press  (BE Press) - collection of e-journals and search function ResearchNow  [website]
• EconLibrary.com - indexes over 500 leading journals of accounting, economics and finance
• Geobase - indexes journals and books in the field of economic geography, environmental economics, exchange and economic development
• Informit - a collection of databases focused on Australia although the International taxation Issues database is international. The AGISPT and the APAFT databases are both full text and are useful for public policy research
• International Pharmaceutical Abstracts - includes economic aspects
• PAIS International  - covers the public policy literature of business, economics, finance, law and other social sciences
• Sage full text collections: CSA Ilumina - includes labour economics.
• See also Sage journals online Sociological Abstracts  - index only, with a sociological emphasis. Good source for articles on the broader issues of political economy. Includes economic theories, systems and structures, development and some agricultural economics.

International

• Statistics Collection, Level M, General Library
  • Includes publications from international agencies, individual country statistical offices and central/reserve banks
  • S1/ ADB Asia Development Bank, S1/EC European Community, S1/ILO International Labour Office, S1/IMF International Monetary Fund, S1/OECD, S1/UN United Nations, S1/WBG World Bank, S2/AUS Australia, S2/CAN Canada, S2/CHN China, S2/GB Great Britain, S2/HK Hong Kong, S2/SGP Singapore, S2/USA and S3 materials on world statistics
• OFFSTATS [Library database]
  • Links mainly to ‘free’ ‘official’’ web sources, data by country, region or topic
  • Doesn’t always link directly into data tables
  • You may have to explore some of the sites as data can be in a publications or research link as well as under statistics, facts and figures or data links
• Datastream [Library database]
  • Note: IMF Direction of Trade data is available under IMF in the Economics view
• Global Market Information Database [Library database]
  • Maintained by Euromonitor, includes statistical tables and market reports
  • Annual data from 1977 onwards including forecasts but note the data is chunked into time blocks and data is patchy before 1988
  • Choose individual countries or choose regions
  • Good for product retailing data
  • Topics include automotives and transport, consumer markets, economic indicators, foreign trade, industrial markets, IT and telecommunications, leisure and lifestyle, population and households, resources and environment, retailing, service markets
• Bank For International Settlements
  • Track research concerning issues relating to central bank activity. The Annual Report includes data concerning emerging market economies
• IMF
  • International Financial Statistics IFS [Library database] - from the IMF, time series economic data, annual, quarterly and monthly data
  • World economic outlook : a survey by the staff of the International Monetary Fund [Voyager record] - full text in Expanded Academic from 1989 and see IMF WEO website Published twice yearly
  • IMF Data mapper - macroeconomic data drawn from the World Economic Outlook presented visually on a world map. You can view data over time as a dynamic presentation using the Play Time function
  • Principal Global Indicators (launched April 2009) presents data for the Group of 20. Hosted by the IMF, this website is a joint undertaking of the Inter-Agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics: Bank for International Settlements, European Central Bank, Eurostat, the IMF, the OECD, the United Nations and the World Bank
  • Regional economic outlook reports - "examine financial sector development, institutional quality, the quality of domestic macroeconomic policies, and trade integration". Cover Asia and the Pacific; Europe; Middle East and Central Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa; and Western Hemisphere." Published twice yearly
• SourceOECD [Library database]
  • Full text access to all OECD publications, or construct your own tables. Some non-OECD data eg China
  • Trade data
    • Select the Statistics tab within SourceOECD> OECD Databases > ITCS International Trade by Commodities Database.   Annual statistical data on imports and exports by commodities and by partner countries in OECD countries and selected non OECD countries including China, Hong Kong, and Chinese Taipei. Quantities and US$ values.
• OECD Economic Outlook "Analyses the major trends and examines the economic policies required to foster high and sustainable growth in member countries. Developments in major non-OECD economies are also evaluated".  Issued twice a year.
• OECD Economic Surveys - view the latest survey on Economic Survey of New Zealand April 2009
• OECD Factbook 2009 - provides a global overview of major economic, social and environmental indicators. This issue focuses on inequality.
  • Direct comparisons can be made for many indicators between OECD Members and Brazil, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa. Use the StatLinks below the tables to access further data on other countries currently going through the OECD accession process – Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia.
• OECD International Trade by Commodity Statistics [Voyager record] - annual statistics on international trade of OECD countries. Data are provided in value by commodity and by partner country
• OECD Journal on Development
• OECD Main Economic Indicators [Voyager record] - a broad range of indicators for 5 years for the 30 OECD countries, including national accounts, industrial production, confidence indicators, car registrations, retail trade, CPI, labour costs, unemployment, interest and exchange rates, trade and current balance.  Note re Voyager links: Business Source Premier provides easier navigation, but SourceOECD is most up-to-date.  See also the supplementary text Main economic indicators. Sources and methods  
• National Acounts at a Glance 2009 (new annual publication)
• National Accounts of OECD Countries database - includes breakdowns by kind of activity for gross value added (current and constant prices, 2000 reference year), components of value added, gross fixed capital formation and employment. Also includes final consumption expenditure of households by purpose; simplified accounts for general government, corporations and households; general government expenditure by function and detailed accounts by institutional sectors (total economy, non-financial corporations, financial corporations, general government, households and non-profit institutions serving households and rest of the world). Data are based on the System of National Accounts 1993 for all countries.
• OECD Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies : World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Power. Summary of 2nd World Forum, Istanbul 27-30 June 2007 (Pdf); Beyond GDP Measuring Progress, True Wealth and the Well-being of Nations, 19 & 20 November 2007, including video introduction. And see Newsletter
• OECD Statistics Portal access consumer prices, purchasing power parities, unemployment rates, G7 merchandise trade volume, IEA monthly oil market report and more
• OECD Society at a Glance 2009 - this forms one of the At a Glance series, also includes Regions at a Glance, the OECD Factbook and OECD in Figures
• OECD Statistics Newsletter - The OECD Chief Statistician Enrico Giovannini engaged in an online conversation 12 July 2007 "Statistics: Separating Fact from Fiction"
• OECD Tax - Revenue Statistics available fulltext within SourceOECD
• UN
  • UN Data
    • Includes the former UN Common Database - the Wiki provides a good overview of content - draws together annual time series data from ILO, IMF and the World Bank
    • See the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online - search a wide range of indicators by country or region, from 1997 onwards
  • Comtrade
    • The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database - the largest depository of international trade data. Bi-lateral trade between countries and areas by commodity. US$
• World Bank
  • World Development Indicators [Library database]
    • World Bank ‘official’ time series data (annual), from 1960 onwards, covers: people, environment, economy, states and markets, international transactions, global links
    • Useful for comparing countries, regional groupings and income groupings
    • Data manipulation is possible including viewing data as a index or % change, includes definitions and underlying data sources
    • Also available in print format at S1/WBG DEVi with a companion publication, with World development report at S1/WBG DEV  (Statistics collection Level M, General Library). World development reports are also online at http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/
  • Global Development Finance [Library database]
• See also
• Index of Economic Freedom - ranks 161 countries according to 10 specific economic freedoms
• MeasuringWorth.com - this website allows you to calculate relative worth over time

• Web of Science - the key database to use for this type of research. Find out who has cited a particular journal article or book. Use the Create citation alert feature to receive emails for any subsequent citing of a particular article. Also note the additional data available for citations egg ranking features, international spread for citations. Poor coverage of New Zealand journals
• Business Source Premier - has Times cited in this database links for some articles. It also has a Cited references button on the top of the page menu bar. Note that the cited bys are only to other items in the EBSCOhost database
• ScienceDirect - look for the Cited by link for individual records. There is also a link to Cited by in Scopus for individual records. Only relates to other materials in the ScienceDirect and Scopus databases
• Scopus - related to ScienceDirect.  The cited by link is to the right side of each item in a results list
• Google scholar - look for Cited by links for some of the results
• Other databases to search for 'cited by' information are those that allow you to run your search through the full text or all text. Databases allowing you to do this include ABI/INFORM, Emerald and  Expanded Academic

• American economic review
• Econometrica
• Journal of political economy
• Journal of economic theory
• Quarterly journal of economics
• Journal of econometrics
• Econometric theory
• Review of economic studies 
• Journal of business and economic statistics
• Journal of monetary economics
• Games and economic behavior
• Journal of economic perspectives
• Review of economics and statistics
• European economic review
  
• International economic review
• Economic theory
  
• Economic journal
• Journal of public economics
• Journal of economic literature - a good source for book reviews and overviews of books and journal articles by subject

Also of note:

• Journal of applied econometrics
• Journal of labour economics
• Journal of environmental economics and management
• Public policy research
  
• Rand journal of economics
• Journal of financial economics
• Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
• Journal of international economics
  
• Economica - includes the Phillips Curve' article which was the most heavily-cited macroeconomics title of the 20th century. Phillips, A. W. (1958). The Relation between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money Wage Rates in the United-Kingdom, 1861-1957. Economica, 25(100), 283-299.
  
• Economic history review
• The Developing economies - official journal of the The Institute of Developing Economies. April 2008 The China Issue
• Review of development economics
• Journal of economic psychology - Associate Editor Associate Professor Ananish Chaudhuri
• History of political economy and see publisher's blurb and the 50 most cited articles
• Health economics
• The World economy
• Asian economic journal : journal of the East Asian Economic Association
• Australian economic papers
• Australian economic review
• China and world economy
• New Zealand economic papers - Editor Associate Professor Ananish Chaudhuri

• Directory of Open Access Journals - for economics 

• Cabell's Business Directory - find out guidelines for submitting manuscripts to journals in the areas of accounting, economics & finance, management, and marketing

Library databases

• Econlit indexes Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR Discussion Papers as well as the National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Papers.  Use Find Full Text to see if the library has the full text of these publications
• CEPR Discussion Papers Online - held full text from 1998
• GIBLIN  Working Papers Database - produced by the Giblin Economics and Commerce Library, University of Melbourne.  A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts working papers on economics and economics-related topics published in the last 5 years. Part of the Informit database

OECD working papers

• Recent: Mold, A., Paulo, S., & Prizzon, A. (2009, March). Taking stock of the credit crunch: implications for development finance and global governance. Working Paper No. 277. OECD Development Centre.

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 Last updated: 2 February, 2010