Political Science — Economics and Finance

Balance of Payments Statistics (See also "International Monetary Fund" for related databases.) Statistical database of time series data, also available in print. This is a CD-ROM product located in Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the Library.
Budget of the United States Government Full-text and spreadsheet versions of the current US budget and previous budgets back to 1997.
CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Discussion Paper Discussion papers covering economics, political economy, policy, and sociology.
CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Policy Paper Analysis of policy issues and political economy.
China Academic Journals Thousands of primarily Chinese but also English language articles, most from 1994 to the present, on various subjects including: art, drama, economics, finance, history (e.g., ancient Chinese, world by regions), ideology, Chinese language, law (civil, criminal, other), literature, military affairs, morality education, music, philosophy, physical culture, politics, religion, tourism, and transportation. Examples of sub-sections include: "Finance & Taxes" on finance theory, China and world finance, and accounting. Political topics in subsections such as "Political Organization in China" include party theory, the Communist movement, other parties, parties in other nations, labor, peasant, youth, women and other organizations.
China Data Online / Zhongguo Shu Ju Zai Xian Emphasis is on economic statistics, macroeconomic development, financial indicators of hundreds of industries, the population and economy at the provincial, county, and city levels, marketing surveys, statistical yearbooks, and more.
Collins Dictionary of Economics
Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
Dictionary of Economics (Wiley)
Direction of Trade Statistics (See also "International Monetary Fund" for related databases.) Accompanied by Direction of trade statistics historical, 1948-1980. This is a CD-ROM product located in Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the Library.
EconLit EconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature.
Economic Report of the U.S. President " . . . overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices. The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget."
Economic Research, FRED Easy to use time-series database with statistics on banking, Consumer Price Index, employment and population, trade and international transactions, and more from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Economics A listing of resources compiled by the NU Economics Bibliographer.
Economics Handbooks :
Economist Intelligence Unit on the Internet Economic data on 150 countries, from about 1980 to present.
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Factiva-domestic & international news Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo, Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany), etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as treaties of the EU. For search help, go to the Factiva Help Page.
Fed in Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research Databases of the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks.
Foreign Trade Statistics Imports and exports of the United States. This web site is supplemented by the CD-ROM USA Trade, which is available in Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department and provides access to monthly and annual statistics of foreign trade.
GATT Digital Library
Global Development Finance World Bank statistics on the external debt and financial flows of developing nations (The ICA client is required to run this database) This database is temporarily unavailable due to hardware failure. A print copy of this publication is available in the Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department .
Government Finance Statistics (See also "International Monetary Fund" for related databases.) Contains the economic time series appearing in the Government finance statistics yearbook (GFSY) publication. Includes data observations expressed in scientific notation. This is a CD-ROM product located in Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the Library.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International Financial Statistics (See also "International Monetary Fund" for related databases.) IFS disks provide users with time series which summarize each country's balance of payments, with collateral data on its principal components (trade and reserves), and data on the principal cause and effect elements (monetary expansion and contraction, government surpluses and deficits, production, prices, and interest rates). This is a CD-ROM product located in Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the Library.
International Monetary Fund The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the Library houses numerous non-networked, non-circulating IMF statistical databases on CD-ROM. Titles include: Balance of Payments Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, and International Financial Statistics. For details, look in NUcat.
International Political Economy Network (IPEnet)
InvestorWords Glossary of financial and investment terms.
ISI Emerging Markets Economic conditions in developing countries of Latin America, Asia and Europe. Includes industry and analyst reports, macroeconomic statistics and forecasts, legal and regulatory information, and opinion polls from the following emerging markets: Baltic States (including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (including Slovakia), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia (including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Turkey, Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, China, India, South Korea and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand).
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
LexisNexis Statistical (formerly Statistical Universe) Statistical information from governmental and privately-published sources, including the American Statistics Index (ASI) and Statistical Reference Index (SRI).
Making of the Modern Economy. The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850 " Digital facsimiles of literature on economics and business published from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century from the collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School; with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University, and from Sterling Library at Yale University.... documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth; focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology.... Includes facsimiles of rare books and primary source materials such as political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, proclamations, and a wide range of ephemera." (H. Lightman)
OECD Index Bibliographic database containing descriptions of documents and publications issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and related agencies such as the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Search the Library catalog NUcat for the titles you want. For assistance with this resource, please visit the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department or contact staff at 847-491-3130 or govpubs@northwestern.edu. See also SourceOECD .
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) resources at NU: A thorough guide to OECD materials available to the NU community; compiled by the Main Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Oxresearch - Oxford Analytica Research papers, source intelligence, and global strategic analysis on issues in current business, security studies, development, world politics, developing countries, and economic history. Bridges the time-gap between newspaper reporting of current events and the appearance of scholarly works.
PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
Penguin Dictionary of Economics
SourceOECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Full-text of periodicals and statistics. See also OECD Index .
STAT-USA/Internet Commerce Department Internet service on a broad range of subjects in trade, business, and economics. The NU Library has access to this service through the Federal Depository Library Program.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.
World Bank and IMF Network Libraries Catalog—JOLIS (Library catalogs) Includes references to books, journal titles, journal articles, working papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, videos, software, electronic resources, and published IMF and World Bank materials. Please check the Library's catalog NUcat for availability, and speak with staff Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department .
World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database This site provides the most frequently requested statistics from the International Monetary Fund's biannual World Economic Outlook.

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Lucy E. Lyons
Collection Analysis, Journalism, and Political Science
Northwestern University Library
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l-lyons@northwestern.edu
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Last updated: 05/09/08