CTD: Economics

Library Catalog

Use NUcat (the online catalog) to identify books that the library has, as well as journal titles, microfilm, videos, and other catalogued material.

Indexes / Databases

• Academic Search Premier

  The database includes full text for 1800 publications as well as images, for nearly every academic field of study.

• Academic OneFile
  

  Provides citations to a wide array of materials covering almost all academic areas.

• Lexis Nexis Academic

  Among many other sources this database indexes national and international newspapers, news wires, magazines, and trade journals.

• PAIS International

  This database contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more.

• Social Science Abstracts

  Index to international, English-language periodicals in the social sciences, including sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

  Provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

• JSTOR

  Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.

• EconLit

  Comprehensive index to the literature of economics. Provides citations, with selected abstracts.

Reference Books

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online / edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
Available Online

A Dictionary of Business and Management / editors, John Pallister, Alan Isaacs.
Location: MAIN Reference (Management corner) (Non-circulating) 650.03 D5543

An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics : A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named After Economists/ edited by Julio Segura and Carlos Rodri´guez Braun.
Location:MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 330.03 E64

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History/ Joel Mokyr, editor in chief.
Location: MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 330.03 O98
Also available Online

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy /edited by R.J. Barry Jones.
Location: MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 337.03 R869

The Penguin Dictionary of Economics / Graham Bannock, R.E. Baxter, Evan Davis.
Location: MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 330.03 B219p 2003

Encyclopedia of American civil liberties / Paul Finkelman, editor.
Location: MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 342.73085 E56

Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history / Thomas Carson, editor, Mary Bonk, associate editor.
Location: MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 330.973 G151
Also available Online

The McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of economics / Douglas Greenwald, editor in chief.
Location: MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 330.03 E564 1994

A dictionary of economics / John Black.
Location: MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 330.03 B627d 2002
Also available Online

An encyclopedia of Keynesian economics / John Black.
Location: MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
Call number: 330.03 B627d 2002
Also available Online

Geoff Morse
Reference Department
Email:gmorse@northwestern.edu
Office phone: 847.467.1866
Reference desk phone: 847.491.7656