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Business, Finance and Economics
Last Updated: 17 April 2008
- Advertising World
- http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/index.asp
- Marketing directory; broken-down by specific advertising topic; topics open to lists of links, some annotated
- American Accounting Association
- http://aaahq.org/index.cfm
- Faculty Development section provides links to continuing education; "Publications" aoffers free access to the association's publications, searchable by author, title, and keyword
- AnnualReports.com
- http://www.annualreports.com
- Provides free access to the annual reports of hundreds of publicly-traded companies; easiest to use the alphabetic browse option
- ArgMax: Economic News, Data, and Analysis
- http://www.argmax.com/
- Good source for economic news; blow breaks-down current event items; author has won several awards and used to run About.com's economics site
- B&E DataLinks: Econ & Financial Data Sources
- http://www.econ-datalinks.org
- Sponsored by the American Statistical Association; links are searchable by key work; each link has both a description and a rating
- BEOnline Plus
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/beonline/index.html
- Browsable by title/subject; list of online resources for entrepreneurship and small businesses
- Big Charts
- http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
- Charting abilities for stock of any publicly-traded company; news on the market; membership (free) allows user to keep an online portfolio and get alerts
- Biz Site Recommender by James J. Hill Reference Library
- http://www.biztoolkit.org/
- Tools to start or grow a business; includes forms, plans, templates, podcasts
- BizLink by Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
- http://www.bizlink.org
- Annotated list of business links covering everything from career information to taxes to economic conditions
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- http://www.bea.gov/
- "Digital Library" is growing -- right now, only covers 1934-1947; main page links to important U.S. data like GDP, personal incomes and outlays, state and industry information
- Business Ethics by Shawn Stoerger MLS, MBA
- http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm
- Fully and clearly annotated list of links to articles and web sites on business ethis; free registration is required to view some items
- Business Plans Handbook by Thompson Gale
- http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/business-plans/
- Online business plan examples; searchable, but best if browsed; gives examples of business types as well as mock-up plans
- Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary, by Campbell R. Harvey
- http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm
- Browsable, alphabetically-organized glossary of finance terms; words in definitions are hyperlinked to their own definitions
- Canadian Economy Online
- http://www.canadianeconomy.gc/ca/english/economy/
- "Learn About" section discusses general items -- economy terms, historic economic events; rest of the site focuses on Canadian policies
- Catherwood Digital Collections
- http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/collections/digitalCollections.html
- Primary sources related to events in US labor; includes Congressional research, globalization, labor photos, and an exhibit on the Triangle Factory fire
- CollegeJournal
- http://www.collegejournal.com/
- Wall Street Journal site for business students; information on careers, educatin in business fields
- CorpWatch
- http://www.corpwatch.org
- Site collects information on corporate activities around the world; very concerned with accountability, human rights, social/environmental justics
- DoingBusiness
- http://www.doingbusiness.org
- Guide to international business regulations maintained by the World Bank; "Explore Economies" provides charts of current economic information
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- http://www.eclac.cl/default.asp?idioma=IN
- Front page links to current event items; "Publications" includes an up-to-date statistical yearbook and links to some books and journals
- EconomicIndicators.gov
- http://www.economicindicators.gov/
- List of the US Government's economic indicators; updated as often as the indicators themselves are updated; some reports are only current, others go back up to ten years
- Economist.com: Country Briefings
- http://www.economist.com/countries/
- "Research Tools" links to surveys and background articles; Country Briefings are available along the left search bar; full-content of Economist available if user views a brief advertisement
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
- http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
- Digitized samples from Duke's eclectic and far-reaching advertising collection
- Everything International by Lloyd C. Russow
- http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/russow.html
- Lightly annotated list of international business links categorized by topic
- FED101
- http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/fed101/index.htm
- Interactive site focusing on the history of the federal reserve and U.S. monetary policy; excellent site for those wanting to understand economic indicators
- Finance Resources on the Web
- http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~igiddy/index.bak
- Fully-annotated list of finance resources separated by topic
- FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
- http://fraser.stlouisfed.org
- Banking statistics and historical economic documents produced by the St. Louis Fed
- globalEDGE
- http://globaledge.msu.edu
- "Resource Desk" includes country insights and global business resources; also has diagnostic business tools
- Globalization101.org
- http://www.globalization101.org
- Well-balanced site that aims to educate individuals on the ups and downs of globalization; business-heavy
- Glossary of Financial and Business Terms by The New York Times Company
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosa.htm
- Works best if searched by letter
- Hoover's Online
- http://www.hoovers.com/free/
- Biographies and directories for companies and individuals; can browse company information by name or ticker
- Inc.com
- http://www.inc.com
- Online home for Inc. magazine; focuses heavily on business technology but also has useful articles for small business owners and wannabes
- Industry Research Desk
- http://www.virtualpet.com/industry
- Good information on how to do industry research; "Come on In!" leads to an annotated list of links on general industry research as well as specific industries
- Internal Revenue Service
- http://www.irs.gov
- Everything you ever wanted to know about United States taxes; business to personal, laws to forms
- International Monetary Fund
- http://www.imf.org/
- IMF's main site; provides information on what IMF does as well as news and country reports
- Intro to Accounting - Simple
- http://www.simplestudies.com
- Free complete basic accounting class
- KnowThis.com: Marketing Virtual Library
- http://www.knowthis.com
- First page has links to some excellent marketing tutorials; subject areas on main page lead to lists of well-annotated links
- Liber8
- http://liber8.stlouisfed.org
- Economic information portal; front page has current news and indicators; can brows international/national/regional data or use search function
- Library of Economics and Liberty
- http://www.econlib.org/
- Includes links to full-text books and essays as well as an economics encyclopedia
- Market Research Portal
- http://www.marketresearchworld.net
- Covers market research and marketing trends; has some statistics tutorials
- MarketWatch
- http://www.marketwatch.com/
- Links to current events relevant to the stock market; personal finance information
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
- http://www.nber.org/
- "Publications" link leads to many free pre-pub books and several free journals; many economic data collections are also available
- Path to Investing
- http://www.pathtoinvesting.org
- Guide to personal investing with basic information on how markets work, how to set investing goals, tip sheets
- Resources for Economists on the Internet
- http://rfe.org/
- Lightly-annotated, categorized list of resources; everything from dictionaries to job postings to software and blogs
- SCORE
- http://www.score.org
- Business tools, disaster plans, advice and ask-an-expert tools; geared towards small-business owners
- St. Louis Fed: Economic Data - FRED II
- http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
- Provides downloadable Excel charts on topics such as Condition of Banks, Exchange Rates; Employment and Population
- Startup Nation
- http://www.startupnation.com
- Multi-media site – including downloadable forms and podcasts – that focuses on starting a new business
- Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
- http://www.taxsites.com/
- Broken-down by topic; links are not annotated but cover everything from tax law to payroll services; categories/topics are specific enough to be useful guides to a site's topic
- United States Small Business Administration
- http://www.sba.gov/
- Business Law / Business Plan site aimed at making the legal side of running a small business easier
- US Small Business Administration
- http://www.sba.gov
- Government resources for starting and growing a small business
- W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
- http://www.upjohninst.org/
- Full-text economic reports and working papers on employment trends
- Wachowicz's Web World: Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students
- http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/wacho_world.html
- Maintained as a supplement to Fundamentals of Financial Management; links are clearly annotated
- World Bank
- http://www.worldbank.org
- Includes links to current World Bank publications, searchable by country; also gives overviews of current World Bank projects
- Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
- http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/center/
- Explores globalization issues from the economy to the environment
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