Economics

From the publishers of The Economist newspaper

From the publishers of the Financial Times newspaper

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (free resource)

IDEAS is the largest freely available bibliographic database dedicated to economics. IDEAS is based on RePEc, a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics which includes bibliographic metadata from over 2,000 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets. An icon at the beginning of the working paper's citation in IDEAS indicates whether a downloadable full-text version of the paper is available.

U.S. Census Bureau Working Papers feature results of Census Bureau research on a variety of topics including the economy. Note: these working papers have not undergone the review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications.

"The Congressional Research Service (CRS), a federal legislative branch agency located within the Library of Congress, serves as shared staff exclusively to congressional committees and Members of Congress...CRS approaches complex topics from a variety of perspectives and examines all sides of an issue. Staff members analyze current policies and present the impact of proposed policy alternatives."

"CRS reports provide Congress with both anticipatory and on-demand research and analysis to support their legislative, oversight, and representational duties. All reports adhere to the core values of CRS; they are authoritative, objective and nonpartisan. Reports range in length from several pages to more than one-hundred pages and cover the full breadth of topics of interest to Congress."

IZA Discussion Papers make new research findings from the IZA network available to the scientific community and the interested public before they are published in refereed journals.

The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges on a global level. Explore more than 20,000 RAND publications dating back to 1946. Includes documented briefings, occasional papers, research briefs, research reports, and technical reports.

From the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

From Oxford University Press, features in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on economics and finance topics. Experts provide subject overviews that readers can understand in 30 minutes or less. Economics and Finance content is free during a preview period.

Blogs, Academic, and Research Institute Resources about International Business and Economics. Part of WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources, an Internet directory supported by Elizabethtown College, which contains "over 2000 annotated links to high-quality English-language sources of information and analysis in many international and global studies topics. Sites are carefully selected for their long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, authoritative information and analysis online."

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. The OKR contains thousands of research works including books, reports, background papers, working papers, studies, and surveys.