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Economic Sites from Fred Carr
A "wealth of resources," a "treasure trove" of information, a veritable "data bank"--none of these terms come close to the mark in describing the vast amount of information being offered via the Web on financial and economic topics. Below you'll find some of our favorite resources for diving off into this world without getting soaked in the process.
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Economics WWW Page at Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/financia.html
This page is a collection of links for economists' resources on the Internet. This service includes separate pages on economic data and economic research documents, international economics and trade, financial economics, and links to economics and financial news groups from Usenet. This is a good starting point for jumping into the Web for economics and finance-related links gathered in one page, especially for those with an academic focus. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Experimental Stock Market Data
http://www.ai.mit.edu/stocks.html
An experimental page created by Mark Torrance of the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, this page provides a link to the latest stock market information. It consists of general market news and quotes for selected stocks, which are updated automatically from an e-mail source in California to reflect the current day's closing information. The page contains stock charts of price and volume movement, mutual fund charts of price movement, the top stocks, the updated stock quotes, and links to other financial information available on the Web. This has become a popular server since it was compared to QuoteCom (see below) as the only free service on the Net to serve up stock quotes by the Washington Post business section. So, you can probably expect to see it around for a while in some form or another. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
http://compstat.wharton.upenn.edu:8001/~siler/fedpage.html
Yes, that's right, the Federal Reserve (of Philadelphia, that is). Here you will find a wealth of information on research and publications from the Federal Reserve, such as the "Beige Book: Commentary on Economic Conditions in the District," The Business Review, a series of business newsletters, the Mid-Atlantic Manufacturing Index, banking policy and legislation, and "The Fed in Print," a bibliography of the publications issued by the Federal Reserve (watch out, it's a big file!). You'll even find a copy of the Gatt Treaty here for your edification. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Financial Economics Network
http://www.crimson.com/fen/
The stated purpose of the Financial Economics Network is to "increase and enhance communications among professionals interested in financial economics." Although this is a free service provided by professor Wayne Marr, you must specify why you would benefit from participating in the Network. The FEN specializes in electronically publishing the Journal of Financial Abstracts, which is compiled from a family of five journals--Corporate Finance and Organization, Derivatives, Capital Markets, Banking, Economics, and Methodology, and Accepted Paper Series--which are updated weekly and which may be accessed through a keyword search via the FEN's forms interface. The FEN also contains job listings for Ph.D candidates in economics and finance, and professional announcements on financial economics. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
FINWeb
http://riskweb.bus.utexas.edu/finweb.html
One of the better and more extensive collections of enonomic and financial information that we found, FINWeb is managed by professor James R. Garven at the University of Texas at Austin, and is offered as an ancillary service of RISKWeb--a risk and insurance World Wide Web server. It includes information on six electronic journals including Uncover, which boasts access to over 17,000 periodicals for searching for articles, working papers in economics, 16 different databases, and over 20 other economics related Web pages or Net resources. Full of many interesting resources for both the professional economist and financier as well as the lay investor, this page will keep anyone fascinated for quite some time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Merger Policy
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Owen/froeb/antitrust/antitrust.html
This is a Web page aimed at the cross disciplinary area of mergers and antitrust law, trying to merge the different aspects of law, economics, and public policy for both antitrust practitioners and academics. Thus, this page brings together antitrust case documents such as complaints, opinions, and expert testimony; enforcement guidelines issued by governmental agencies; economic bibliographies; and current antitrust issues in the news. If you have the urge to merge, this page may be of interest to you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Nasdaq Financial Executive Journal
http://www.law.cornell.edu/nasdaq/nasdtoc.html
The Nasdaq Financial Executive Journal is a joint project of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School and the Nasdaq (SM) Stock Market. This Web page carries the FEJ, starting with the summer of 1993 onward, in complete hypertext form. As if that weren't enough, there is even a quote by Marc Andreessen of Netscape Communications Corporation introducing the journal!
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The Personal Finance Center
http://gnn.com/cgi-bin/imagemap/HOME?455,90
The Personal Finance Center (PFC) is part of the larger Global Network Navigator (GNN), created by O'Reilly and Associates. The PFC started as a student project in 1993, listing Net resources for money management, investment, and finance. Now it has become a very popular area on GNN. In addition to providing a listing of different Net resources, the PFC now also carries a series of articles and columns on personal finance. We found this to be one of the best overall resources available on the Net, especially for the individual investor. It carries information indexed by subject, such as credit cards and real estate, or by the type of resource, such as other WWW sites, gopher, USENET groups, or WAIS. When we accessed the PFC, it carried over 70 different links to information of all sorts across the Net. If we were stranded on a desert island with millions of dollars and only one WWW site to link to for our investment decisions, this would be our pick. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
QuoteCom
http://www.quote.com/
A commercial Web service, QuoteCom supplies financial market data to Internet users for under $10 per month. Basic users are limited to 100 quotes per day on all domestic exchanges, end-of-day portfolio updates, portfolio alarm monitoring, Hoover Company profiles on over 1,200 companies, annual reports by mail on over 3,000 companies, and access to BusinessWire and PR Newswire services. A very complete investment service for the financially active, QuoteCom is worth investigating. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The RAND Journal of Economics WWW Page
http://www.rand.org:80/misc/rje/
The Rand Journal of Economics is a publication of the famous Rand Corporation, a nonprofit organization which studies and publishes on current public policy issues. The journal encourages research on the behavior of regulated industries, the economic analysis of organizations, and more generally, applied microeconomics. The Web page itself carries information on staff and editors of the journal, searchable abstracts, a table of contents from 1970-1995, subscription information, and instructions for ordering back issues. While you are here, be sure to take a look at the main Web page for the Rand corporation, which contains its 1992 to 1993 list of publications on economics. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SEC EDGAR Database
http://town.hall.org/edgar/edgar.html
Having you been trying to track down information on a new company? The Internet EDGAR Dissemination project will allow you to receive any 1994 filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission that are available to the public. (However, nonelectronic filings, filings that are not available to the public, and any data prior to 1994 will not be available here.) This group is researching how such large data archives can be made easily available to the general public by New York University's Stern School of Business. Mead Data Central operates the EDGAR Dissemination Service on behalf of the Federal government and with access to underlying legal documents available from the Legal Information Institute of the Cornell Law School. The Web page provides access to the EDGAR archives via a searchable forms interface, custom retrieving tools, and an EDGAR to WordPerfect conversion utility. For instance, you can search for a company prospectus, or electronically filed mutual funds, or even executive compensation for companies that have filed! In addition, you have access to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You knew these things would happen when the government got computerized!
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Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG): Economics
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/Welcome.html
The Economics page is part of the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), which is maintained by the University of Bristol ESRC project. This page contains a large number of links to Web resources (over 65 when we visited). From here you can access such interesting sites as 1995 Budget of the U.S., a gopher of daily sources of business and economic news, another gopher for The Economist magazine, FedWorld, the gargantuan U.S. respository of government information, Russian and East European Business and Economics, the Small Business Administration, U.K. Treasury Service, information--U.K., U.S. Embassy Daily Bulletin, and the World Bank. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
STAT-USA
http://www.stat-usa.gov/stat-usa.html
An amazing governmental resource, STAT-USA is part of the Economics and Statistics Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. STAT-USA provides economic, business, social, and environmental program data produced by more than 50 federal sources. This organization delivers hundreds of thousands of federal publications and statistical reports to U.S. businesses and to the public. STAT-USA carries information on agriculture, import and export regulations, country reports on social and economic policies, price indexes, state exports, overseas and domestic industry information, market research reports, interest rates, exchange rates, how-to guides, and much, much more. The complete contents of STAT-USA includes hundreds of books, magazines, reports, and major databases. On the Web page you can specifically access four major databases of information. The first is the National Trade Data Bank, the U.S. Government's most comprehensive source of world trade data, comprising more than 160,000 documents of information. The National Economic, Social, and Environmental Data Bank is a source of information on socioeconomic programs and trends in the United States today. The NESE-DB is a CD-ROM product which provides in-depth coverage of economic trends, education, health issues, criminal justice, and the environment. Lastly, the Economic Bulletin Board via Telnet provides the world's leading source of government-sponsored business data. A huge compendium of accessible information, these databases are valuable to both the public and private sector and act as one of the conduits of information from the U.S. government back to us taxpayers. We've paid for it, let's use it!
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Education
As you can imagine, since the Net was once the domain of the government, researchers, and universities, the educational resources on the Net are vast. Since we couldn't cover everything, we have tried to gather some of the best of both the big and the small, from the NCSA and the U.S. Department of Education to Janice's K12 Cyberspace OUTPOST and Plugged In, a program to give economically challenged kids access to technology. We hope you learn a lot from this eclectic educational mix.
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Academe This Week
http://chronicle.merit.edu/
This is the online representation of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Somewhere between an advertisement and an information resource, this service helps you find out what is in each week's issue of academia's weekly newspaper.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
American Universities
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
This is an attempt at a comprehensive listing of all the universities or colleges in America; if it is not comprehensive, it must come very close. When we checked there were over 370 listings of American educational institutions. If you or your kids are about to go to college, this will be a good resource to compare programs and campus information from around the nation. And it's so much lighter to carry around than the equivalent analog paper copies! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ArtsEdge
http://k12.cnidr.org/janice_k12/artsedge/artsedge.html
A creative and fun Web page, ArtsEdge is a cooperative project between the JFK Center for the Performing Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the U.S. Department of Education. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
AskEric
http://eryx.syr.edu/COWSHome.html
Another incredible resource for the K-12 audience, AskEric is an Internet service dedicated to providing education through a variety of sources and services. AskEric offers a wide range of automated access to its collection of education documents, the AskEric Virtual Library--which includes over 700 lesson plans, pre-done Eric searches, listserv archives, and pointers to other useful Internet services. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chorus
http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/home.html
Chorus is a resource for academic and educational computing in the arts and humanities aimed at fellow academics, educators, information professionals, students, and those with a less formal or professional interest in using computers to teach and learn humanistic content. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
College and University Home Pages
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
Similar to the American Universities pages listed above, this is an extensive list of colleges and universities around the world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Educom
http://educom.edu/
A commercial Web page, Educom is aimed at those interested in information technology in higher education. For more than 25 years, Educom has brought information technology into classrooms, curricula, and research by providing educators with new technology and information for teaching their students. Educom now boasts approximately 600 higher education institutions and 100 corporations involved in its programs and projects. The Educom Web page contains information on Educom information resources, Educom's strategic development plan, upcoming conferences and events, memberships, and a variety of publications. In addition, many of these services are also available through gopher, WAIS, and e-mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The EdWeb Project
http://k12.cnidr.org:90/
Sponored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, EdWeb allows you to explore online educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education reform, the information highway, examine success stories of computers in the classroom, and much more. Articles like "Computers and Kids: Life on the Front Lines" and "National Statistical Trends in Educational Technology" will help keep educators informed on computers in the classroom. In addition, EdWeb contains other educational links, such as the WWWEDU home page, where new discussion groups explore the role of the World Wide Web in education, or the SchoolWeb Exploration Project, where a coalition of Internet users plans to sponsor primary and secondary schools so that students may develop their own Web sites. One of EdWeb's more interesting areas is "Inside Educational Networking," a new quarterly column in the International Journal for Educational Telecommunications, where you can link automatically to the various resources mentioned in each column. While you're there, stop by and sign Andy Carvin's EdWeb guest book. Tell him we sent you! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Global Campus
http://www.csulb.edu/gc/info/gc.html
This project of the California State University system aims to build an electronic campus accessible thoughout the Internet. Now under construction, the Campus will house a variety of educational and instructional development materials available on the Web. The project is calling for participation on the part of institutions and content providers of all kinds. Besides liberal arts, science, and fine arts, the New Media Centers area.
http://www.csub.edu.80/gc/nmc/
describes a growing consortium of schools around the US and Canada that are using multimedia and electronic publishing tools to create exciting new educational projects for students, faculty, and communities. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Globewide Network Academy
http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/index.html
The Globewide Network Academy (GNA) is a consortium of educational and research organizations. Its mission is to provide a central organization in which students, teachers, scholars, and researchers can meet, interact, and provide services and technical and administrative expertise to member organizations over the Web and the Net in general. Winners of the Best of the Web for 1994, GNA provides a meta-library of keyword-searchable indexes of information sources on the Internet; the GNA Library which provides access to subject librarians and GNA course specific resources; and our favorite, the Collaborative Textbook Project, where hypertext textbooks on a variety of different subjects are being created for their online coursework. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Janice's K-12 Cyberspace Outpost
http://k12.cnidr.org/janice_k12/k12menu.html
Janice's Cypberspace Outpost specializes in resources for the K-12 crowd and has a fun, playful feel to its pages. Included on Janice's page is the K-12 Outpost where she has collected most of all that's new within K-12 Web community, Janice's BIG K-12 gopher, interesting K-12 programs and projects, other K-12 meta-pages, K-12 virtual libraries and information on the National Science Foundation's K-12 projects. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kids Web
http://www.npac.syr.edu:80/textbook/kidsweb/
Very simply a World Wide Web digital library for school kids, this page offers a simple point-and-click Web interface on art, astronomy and space, biology and life sciences, chemistry, computers, drama (with a picture of Spock), environmental science, geography, geology, government, history, literature, math, music, physics, science, sports, and weather. This is the page where you can turn the kids loose, and where they'll have fun for hours--while you can catch up on grading some homework. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Library Resource on the Internet
http://etext.library.nwu.edu:80/.nul/libresources.html/
While not strictly an educational page, libraries and education go hand in hand, so we've decided to continue the tradition. This is a great page for educators, librarians, or anyone interested in knowing about the library resources available on the Net. Covering Web-based virtual libraries, university libraries, public libraries, and a variety of library resources and organizations, this is a one-stop information shop for some of the best information sources on the Web. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
NCSA Education Program
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/EduHome.html
As a part of NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), the education program works to bridge the gap between scientific research and education, and make the tools for computational science available in the classroom. The NCSA shows students and teachers how they may access resources on the Internet, thereby demonstrating how computers and computer networks may enhance K-12 education. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Online Educational Resources
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/HPCC/K12/edures.html
Part of the High Performance Computing and Communications program, the Online Educational Resources (OER) page fosters an increased use of new computer and networking technologies to help support accelerated learning programs in education.
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Plugged In
http://www.pluggedin.org/
It is pages like this that reaffirm your faith in both computers, and humanity in general. Plugged In helps kids who are from low-income communities to work in a state-of-the-art multimedia lab where they do full-cycle multimedia projects, global video conferencing, and develop Web pages.
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U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.html
YAGP, yet another government page: the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) page makes us feel like our tax dollars are well spent in this case. The DOE uses its Web page to "strengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual."
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The World Lecture Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/world/instruction/index.html
One of our favorite pages from the our whole educational collection, the World Lecture Hall is a collection of links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. Here you can find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, and multimedia textbooks on a wide variety of subjects ranging from accounting and anatomy to computers, English, humanities, music, and even religious studies. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is a list of the wild and wacky, the underground and the standard mainstream press--a sampling of some of the electronic magazines, or e-zines, that characterize the personal publishing available on the WWW. Under "Arts," see also "Magazines and Electronic Journals on Art."
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The Asylum
http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~ta/cgi-bin/asylhome-ta
Wacky! In the finest tradition of the Internet's craziest places, the Asylum is a great place to bounce off the walls for a while. Created by Joe "Madman Loose in Disneyland" Cates and Aure "The Enforcer" Prochazka, the Asylum features a host of fun Web stuff. First check out the WWW Lite-Brite art collection and create your own Lite-Brite sculpture. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BuzzNet
http://www.hooked.net:80/site/buzznet/
A totally hip Web page straight from San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch, BuzzNet is a new addition to the Web world. It carries info on underground publications and books, articles on music including a monthly hip-hop column from New York by Kristin Rolla, local SF happenings, an art gallery and art reviews, and our favorite "Sabotage" articles on media criticism in the form of graffitti and general sabotage.
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International Teletimes
http://www.wimsey.com/teletimes/teletimes_home_page.html
Teletimes is an international culture magazine assembled in Vancouver, Canada, and distributed through the Internet, and Onenet (a network of Macintosh BBSs). Each issue has a different focus, from education, travel, or history, to sports, TV and film, and environment and human rights. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intrrr Nrrrd
http://www.etext.org/Zines/Intrrr.Nrrrd/intrrr.html
Do you feel that the Net is here to foster ideas and communication, despite the best efforts of government, popular media, or established corporations to control, manipulate, or otherwise bungle the Net's bandwidth? Well, then perhaps you'll like Intrrr Nrrrd. Intrrr Nrrrd is a combination of punk do-it-yourself ideology, and how-to-use technology to further freedom of expression and thought for everyone. It carries artwork, sound samples, and band reviews, and links to other cool pages with an underground feel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
HotWIRED
http://www.hotwired.com/
You can't talk about electronic magazines on the Web and not talk about HotWIRED. Clearly, HotWIRED is forging a new online medium using the Web as its vehicle. HotWIRED also makes a strong distinction between itself and its print magazine cousin, WIRED. Although they share some features in common, like the Fetish and Net Surf columns, HotWIRED contains new and unique media, and ads and features that are gathered together here which are not available through the printed WIRED. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pathfinder
http://www.pathfinder.com/
This is the meta magazine page for Time Warner, Inc. There are links to their entire family publications, including Time, Money, Vibe, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, and People. It's a great example of linking information between sources and offering virtual updates and variations of the paper editions. You can find review, cross-publication, post on bulletin boards, and search for topics. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Slack Online
http://www.fullfeed.com:80/slack/
Yet another whacky collection of articles, images, and reviews, Slack is a free monthly magazine published in Madison, Wisconsin. The magazine carries info and a variety of links on news, literature and art, entertainment and sports, shareware and freeware, and the "Cutting Edge," where there are links to some of the Web's technically interesting pages. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Spunk Press
http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Jack.Jansen/spunk/Spunk_Home.html
Put together by Jack Jansen of Amsterdam, Spunk press collects and distributes literature with an emphasis on anarchism and anarchist resources. Spunk has a large collection of items such as articles, excerpts, quotations, and prose from a wide variety of writers of political theory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time Magazine
http://www.timeinc.com/time/timehomepage.html
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Ziff-Davis Publishing
http://www.ziff.com/
Ziff-Davis, publishers of PC Week, PC Magazine, PC Computing, MacWeek, MacUser, Computer Shopper, and more has its own Web page. Each Ziff publication is represented separately, with articles and information taken from each. Also here is the Ziff publication Inter@ctive Week, covering the CD-ROM and online businesses. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Department of Economics http://www.uakron.edu/econ/e540/e540.htm
2. LÕOuveture Computer Technology Magnet School http://www.louverture.com/
3. WWW Resources in Economics http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/
4. Netscape Kids http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/index.html
5. Creative Classroom On-line http://www.creativeclassroom.org/
6. The American Experience Main Menu http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex
7. Life 101 http://www.Learn2.com
8. Econwork Resources http://206.106.95.11:80/groups/econwork/eawolts.htm
9. Edustock http://www.portia.advanced.org/3088/
10. Homework Help http://www.startribune.com/stonline/html/special/homework/
11. Shareware.Com http://www.shareware.com/
12. Econ540 Exploring Multimedia and the Internet http://www.uakron.edu/econ/e540/e540.htm
13. thesite: PC in School http://www.thesite.com/0197w3/worl/worl362_011497.html
14. The Journal of Economic Education WWW Page http://www.~econed/index.html
15. Consumer World http://www.consumerworld.org/
16. Scholastic Page http://www.scholastic.com/
17. PBS Kids: Welcome! http://www.pbs.org/kids/
18. Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE) http://www.fte.org/
19. Bloomberg News www.bloomberg.com/bbn/index.html
20. Business Week Online www.businessweek.com
21. S&P Equity Investor Service www.stockinfo.standardpoor.com
22. Securities & Exchange Commnission www.sec.gov
23. USA Today www.usatoday.com
24 U.S.News & World Report www.usnews.com
25. Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com
26. New York Times www.nytimes.com
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