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General Information

A Beautiful Mind - John Nash
A Writer's Online Resources
By Our Own Bootstraps: Economic Opportunity & the Dynamics of Income Distribution
Eric Weisstein's WORLD of MATHEMATICS
Evaluation of Internet Information
Evaluating Internet Sites
Fortune: 100 Best Companies To Work For
In Character
JSTOR Journals Browser
National Center for Policy Analysis - Idea Center
Online! (a reference guide to using internet resources)
These Are the Good Old Days: A Report on U.S. Living Standards
The History of Economic Thought Website
Time Well Spent: The Declining Real Cost of Living in America
The Right Stuff: America's Move to Mass Customization
The New Paradigm
100 Years of Business: Businessman of the Century
Vote.com  (A fascinating site and easy way to make your voice be known)
Wages and the university educated: a paradox resolved

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Introduction to Economics
American Petroleum Institute
By Our Own Bootstraps: Economic Opportunity & the Dynamics of Income Distribution
Dismal Scientist
Gary S. Becker Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in EconomicsGreat Economists and Their Times
How Does Monetary Policy Afect the U.S. Economy (FRBSF: US Monetary Policy)
These Are the Good Old Days: A Report on U.S. Living Standards

Time Well Spent: The Declining Real Cost of Living in America
The Federal Reserve System in Brief
The History of Economic Thought Website
The Structure of the Federal Reserve System
U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
Welfare Information Network
Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform, Urban Institute Research by Topic
Unemployment Information
How Government Measures Unemployment
  Bureau of Labor Statistics -- Handbook of Methods
  Unemployment Insurance - State of Missouri - Department of Labor & Industrial Relations
What's a Dollar Worth? CPI Calculation Machine
Income Tax Information
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Your Income Tax Bracket

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Principles of Macroeconomics
A Time to Learn New Things (Robert Lucas' original Rational Expectations paper)
Anti-Balanced Budget Amendment
An Adventure, Yap Stone Money -- Federated States of Micronesia -- More FSM -- Yap -- More Yap
Are Supply-Siders All Washed Up?
Bank of Israel - Welcome!
BestPlaces.net - City info, data, stats
Bottled Water
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Economagic
Eastbay Online
Dismal Scientist
Gary S. Becker Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics
Great Economists and Their Times
How Does Monetary Policy Affect the U.S. Economy (FRBSF: US Monetary Policy)
How the Government Measures Unemployment
How the Minimum Wage Lost Its Status As a Tool of Social Progress in the United States
Import Sources for Cutlery
Import Sources for Household Wood Furniture
Island Money: A look at the stone money of Yap
Nobel Prize Winners in Economic Sciences
Inflation Calculator -- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
JCPenney
L. L. Bean
Lands End
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Paul Romer: In the Beginning Was the Transistor (an article about endogenous growth)
Open Secrets
Open Secrets Lobbyists
Supply Shocks and the Conduct of Monetary Policy (FRBSF: Economic Letter (07/02/1999))
The History of Economic Thought Website
The Underground Economy (National Center for Policy Analysis)
The World Factbook 1999 -- CIA
Unemployment Information
  Bureau of Labor Statistics -- Handbook of Methods
  Unemployment Insurance - State of Missouri - Department of Labor & Industrial Relations
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
What's a Dollar Worth? CPI Calculation Machine
Value America
Virtual Economy Home Page
Yahoo! Sports: MLB - Players (A-D)
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Intermediate Macroeconomics
A Better Way
Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions (NBER) 
Cost Models - Inflation Calculators
David Romer - Short Run Fluctuations - Paper
David Romer - Short Run Fluctuations - Graphs
Describing Fed Behavior (Taylor Rule) 
Dismal Scientist
Dollarization
Dollarization and Cooperation to Achieve Sound Money
Political Dimensions of Dollarization 
Economic Growth - Paul Romer
Economic Report of the President
Expectations: Henry Thornton Lecture by William Poole 
FreeLunch (Data Source) 
How Fast is Modern Economic Growth? 
How are the labor force components defined?
How Low Inflation Lifts All Ships
How the Minimum Wage Lost Its Status As a Tool of Social Progress in the United States
IMF World Economic Outlook Reports List
In the Beginning Was the Transistor (an article about endogenous growth by Paul Romer)
Island Money: A look at the stone money of Yap
New Economy Myths and Reality 
New Economy, New Recession
Paul Romer's home page
Post-Scarcity Prophet - Paul Romer's Reason Interview
Recent Research on Sticky Prices
Resources For Economists
Sex & Politics: Hard Data
Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Time: It Really Is Money
Time Well Spent: The Declining Real Cost of Living in America (Download)
The Curiously Different Inflation Perspectives of Men and Women
The Demographics of Inflation Opinion Surveys
The Future of the New Economy - Charles Jones
The History of Economic Thought Website
Unions
Untangling e-conomics
U.S. Economic Data
U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction 
What D'Ya Know?
What Goods and Services does the Consumer Price Index (CPI) cover?
Welcome to the AFL-CIO!  

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Money and Banking
A Brief History of Our Nation's Paper Money
About Interest - Market Rates, the Fed, Calculators
American Bankers Association  (ABA)
An Adventure, Yap Stone Money -- Federated States of Micronesia -- More FSM -- Yap -- More Yap
American Currency Exhibit <-- take a tour... this site is really cool
Bank of Kirksville
Bank Rate Monitor: Independent, objective financial information
Banking Reform: Beyond Glass-Steagall
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Cost Models - Inflation Calculators
Economy at a Glance
Electronic Transfer Accounts - Update on Banking the Unbanked
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
First Federal || Home Page
Formulating a Consistent Approach to Monetary Policy (1995 FRB of Minneapolis annual report)
Fundamental Facts about U.S. Money
Futures & Options
Holt Report Index Page
The Inflation Calculator
Important Banking Legislation (from FDIC)
Island Money: A look at the stone money of Yap
Kansas City Board of Trade
Microsoft and the First Bank of the United States
Money - Past, Present & Future
Monetary Policy and the Great Crash of 1929: A Bursting Bubble or Collapsing Fundamentals
Morning in Japan? The Bank of Japan gets radical.  Slate - The Dismal Science, March 11, 1999
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Office of Thrift Supervision
Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Supply Shocks and the Conduct of Monetary Policy (FRBSF: Economic Letter (07/02/1999))
Thank-you American Business Men
The American Stock Exchange
The Trime: the tiny 3-cent silver coin minted in the United States from 1851 to 1873 
The Time Value of Money
The S&L Crisis: A Chrono-Bibliography
United States Economic Data
What Deposit Insurance Can and Cannot Do
Dollarization
Dollarization and Cooperation to Achieve Sound Money
Political Dimensions of Dollarization
Federal Reserve System and Central Bank Policy
Describing Fed Behavior (Taylor Rule)
Federal Reserve System: Purposes and Goals (A Slide Show)
FRB: Federal Reserve Banks
Goals of U.S. Monetary Policy
How Does Monetary Policy Afect the U.S. Economy (FRBSF: US Monetary Policy)
Taylor's Rule and the Fed: 1970-1997
The Federal Reserve System in Brief
The Science (and Art) of Monetary Policy
The Structure of the Federal Reserve System
U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
IMF and World Bank
Congress and the International Monetary Fund
IMF International Monetary Fund Home Page
IMF World Economic Outlook Reports List
Moral Hazard Goes Global: The IMF, Mexico, and Asia
Reforming the IMF and the World Bank
The World Bank Group
When Will Economics Guide IMF and World Bank Reform?

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Social and Policy Analysis
6 billion Human Beings
A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources
Analyzed: Social Security Benefits. Reform & Current Computations
Apocalypse Gore
Econometric Resources on the Net
How the Government Measures Unemployment
How the Minimum Wage Lost Its Status As a Tool of Social Progress in the United States
Institute for America's Future: Social Security
Junkscience.com -- "All the junk that's fit to debunk"
Overpopulation - Information and Resources
Policy.com: The Policy News and Information Service
Portrait of America - #1 Source for public opinion data
Poverty (U.S. Census Bureau)
SelectSmart.com
The Hunger Site Home - Donate Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
Undergraduate Journal of Economics
The Underground Economy (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Web Guide Guide > Politics & Government > U.S. Federal Government

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Economics of Gender
ACRL Women' Studies Collection
Always a Woman
American Association of University Women
Blindsided Ambition: Diagnosing a crisis in young women's lives (Slate June 2004)
Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality, (Income Inequality Symposium, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, August 1998, Dennis J. Snower)
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Head: The pseudo-feminist show trial of Larry Summers (Slate January 2005)
Education, Earnings, Experience, by Rupert & Schweitzer
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Guidlines on Discrimination
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Explaining Trends in the Gender Wage Gap (The Council of Economic Advisors - 1998)
Feminists for Life of America Web Page
Gender Selling: An article about communication styles in the workplace
Hey, Gorgeous, Here's a Raise! by Steven E. Landsburg (Slate July 2001)
Independent Women's Forum
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Is There a War Against Boys? (PBS Thinktank, transcript, July 2000)
Men's Issues Page
Minimum Wage History and Women
Policy Debate: Does a gender wage gap still exist?  (Excellent Cite - Good Links to great resources)
    including primary resources and data and 20 links to different perspective in the debate
Rehnquist's Surprise: Suddenly states do have to follow federal law (Slate May 2003)
Rhona Mahony
Sandy's Choice: Justice O'Connor must choose between her inner feminist and federalist (Slate Oct. 2002)
So Much For That Merit Raise (The Regional Economist, April 2005)
The Equality Equation: What explains the disparity in male and female pay? by Herbert Stein (Slate, April 1999)
The Gender Wage Gap and Wage Discrimination (The Regional Economist, St. Louis Fed Res Bank, October 2000)
The Girls of Summers: What Harvard's president and his critics got wrong (Slate February 2005)
The Mommy Wars, by Cathy Young(Reason, July 2000)
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden (February 2001)
The Trouble With Single-Sex Schools, by Wendy Kaminer (The Atlantic Monthly, April 1998)
The War Against Boys, by Christina Hoff Summers (The Atlantic Monthly, May 2000)
U.S. DOL - Women's Bureau Home Page
Where the Boys Are: Is America shortchanging male children? by Cathy Young (Reason February 2001)
Women in the Labor Force in 2003
Women's Business Resource - WebWise 1999
Women's earnings growth higher than men's at all education level, 1979-2000 (Monthly Labor Review 2001)
Women's Figures: up-to-date information about the progress of American women in business, the academy, and the arts...
Woman's work? Almost anything: Women continue to make headway in arenas traditionally associated with men. (CNNMoney, Personal Finance, April 2004)
Women.com
Working Women Working Together--Main Page

RECENT EARNINGS NEWS from the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor:
    Women's earnings growth higher than men's at all education levels, 1979-2000
    Women's earnings 76 percent of men's in 2000
    Women's earnings up relative to men's in 2002
    Women's earnings 78 percent of men's in 2002
    Increases in men's and women's earnings in 2003
    Women's earnings 80 percent of men's in 2003
    Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2004
    Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2005
    Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2006
    Earnings by educational attainment and sex, 1979 and 2002
    Labor force participation of fathers and mothers varies with children's ages
    Wages, occupations, and job duties

SOCIOBIOLOGY READINGS
    Sociobiology Brief Description
    Sociobiology Overview
    Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer
    Sociobiology--Great Ideas in Personality

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY READINGS
    Social Psychology Basics

ESSAY READINGS
    The Equality Equation: What explains the disparity in male and female pay?
    The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued
    Sandy's Choice: Justice O'Conner must choose...  and  Rehnquist's Surprise: Suddenly, states do...
    Blindsided Ambition: Diagnosing a crisis in young women's lives.
    Don't Worry... show trial of Larry Summers  and  The Girls of Summers: What Harvard's President...
    Is There a War Against Boys?

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A Beautiful Mind
Biographical material about John Nash (including a current picture)
Autobiographical material about John Nash (also includes picture)
Definition of a Nash Equilibrium
A non-technical discussion about game theory and Nash Equilibria

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Economics Websites
Budget Deficits & Debt, Economics Resources, Federal Reserve Banks, Government Resources


Budgets, Deficits, and Debt
$7,782,816,546,352 In Debt, from The American Prospect, CBS News, 4.10.05
A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget
A 'fiscal hurricane' on the horizon

America the Bankrupt, 10/28/06 
Bush's Budget Moves Have Made the Future a Voiceless Victim, Common Dreams News Center, 1.10.05
Congress Sets New Federal Debt Limit: $9 Trillion, NPR, 3/16/06
Debt, the Greatest Threat to Our Security, AntiWar.com, 10.26.04 
Economists: Federal deficit a bigger risk than terrorism, Reuters, 3.21.05 
Federal Budget for 2006
Grandfather Economic Report HomePage by MWHodges
Grandfather Federal Debt Report
Grandfather Federal Government Debt Report
Help Pay Off the National Debt 
Interest Expense on the Public Debt Outstanding
It's Official: 1999 Budget Deficit Was $1 Billion Without Counting the Social Security Surplus
Most New Spending Since 2001 Unrelated to the War on Terrorism, The Heritage Foundation, 11.13.03 
Public Debt Outstanding by Debt Type
Raising the Debt Limit- A Disgrace, Texas Straight Talk, 11.22.04
Record $33 Trillion of U.S. Debt May Pose..., Brady Net Forum, 10.28.03
Repudiating the National Debt, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 5.2.05 
Spending Is Out of Control
The Concord Coalition
The next international “debt crisis” is in North America, On Line Opinion: Australia's e-journal of social and political debate, 6.30.04 
The Public Debt
U.S. Federal Budget
U.S. National Debt Clock
Why is the Debt Still Going Up?

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Economics Resources

American Petroleum Institute
Bertelsmann Stiftung - International Employment Ranking
Brad De Long's Website
CCER National Budget Simulation
Center for Advanced Macroeconomic Policy
Classroom Expernomics
ECONlinks (Dr. Scott Simkins)
Economic Democracy Information Network
Economic Growth Research
Economic History Homepage
Economic Indicators
Economics Departments with PhD Programs
Economics Resources on the Internet
Economist Jokes
Economic Science Laboratory
Economy at a Glance
Famous Economics Majors
FreeLunch (Data Source)
Games Economists Play
Great Economists and Their Times
Heritage Foundation
History of Economic Thought Archive
Hoover Institution Homepage
Hoover Institution Public Policy Inquiry: International Monetary Fund
In Praise of Economists
Internet Economic & Statistics Resources
NASA JSC Cost Estimating and Models Web Site
National Center for Policy Analysis - Idea House
Nobel Prize Winners in Economic Sciences
Office of Consumer Goods, U.S. Department of Commerce
RAND
Resources For Economists: Title page
Statistical Abstract of the United States
The Jerome Levy Economics Institute
The Ludwig von Mises Institute
The National Economists Club
The Official Paul Krugman Web Page
The World Bank Group
The World Factbook -- CIA
U.S. Economic Data
WAGEWEB :HRPDI Home Page
WebEc - WWW Resources in Economics
Welcome to the WTO

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Federal Reserve Banks
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: Home Page
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
FRB: Federal Reserve Banks
FRBKC - Contents
FRBNY Economic Policy Review
FRBNY Fedpoints
Federal Reserve Monitor
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
FRED database-- Federal Reserve Economic Data
The Structure of the Federal Reserve System

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Government Resources
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
Congressional Budget Office Home Page
Economic Indicators
Economic Report of the President
Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
GPO Access, Keeping Government Information at Your Fingertips
National Bureau of Economic Research
Occupational Employment Statistics Home Page
OSEDA -- Missouri Census Information
United States Department of Labor
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Treasury Bureaus
Welcome To The White House

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Journals and Other Publications

American Economic Review
FRB of St. Louis Publications
Insights Into Finance & Economics
Issues in Political Economy Journal
Journal of Economic Education
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of Managerial Issues
Journal of Political Economy
Michigan Journal of Economics
Planning and Markets
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, The
RAND Journal of Economics
Review of Development Economics
Review of International Economics
Review of Political Economy
Student Economic Review - University of Dublin

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News Media
The

Barron's Online,This Week's Print Edition, Archive Search

The Wall Street Journal Interactive,Economic Indicators, Front Page, Markets Data Center, Opinion Journal, Archive Search
Dow Jones University (distance learning)

The New York Times Front Page: Archives, Business, Politics, Technology

NPR Online,All Things Considered, Morning Edition Index, RealAudio Home Page
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Miscellaneous Media Outlets
ABCNews.com
Accuracy in Media
Atlantic Unbound!  The Atlantic Monthly
Attitude! Marketplace Radio Business News
BBC News | Front Page | front page
Brill's Content
Business Week Online: From the world's most widely read business publication
CNET.com - News
CNNfn - the financial network
CNN Interactive
Congressional Quarterly Inc.
Deseret News
Disgruntled Cover
Drudge Report
Forbes.com
Forbes ASAP
The Big Issue (Forbes ASAP)
Fortune
Guardian Unlimited (a United Kingdom publication)
Human Events - The National Conservative Weekly
Infoseek
LIFE Magazine Homepage
Meridian Magazine : : The Place Where Latter-day Saints Gather
MSNBC News
NationalJournal.com
National Journal's Cloakroom -- Site Index
NBC TV's Home On The Web - NBC.com
NewsBank: Missouri Newspapers
Reason: Free Minds and Free Markets 
Slate Online Magazine
The American Spectator Online
The Atlantic Monthly
The Economist
The Gallup Organization
The MoJo Wire - Interactive Expos*s and Politics
The Nation. Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865
The Washington Post
The Washington Times -- America's Newspaper
TIME.com
U.S. News & World Report Online
USA Today
Wired News
Working Woman
Worth Magazine Online
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Organizations

American Bankers Association
American Economic Association
Association for Social Economics
National Association for Business Economists
National Association of Economic Educators
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Council on Economic America
National Council on Economic Education
National Economic Association
Other Economics Associations and Societies

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Other Cool and Important Stuff
Serious Stuff, Fun Stuff, Movie Stuff

Miscellaneous Serious Stuff
About.com - Human Guides. Human Interests. Expert guidance from hundreds of Guides.
The Official Cato Institute Homepage
Individual Rights Home Page
Libertarian Organizations
Liberty Library
Other Links of Interest
Project On Social Security Privatization
Center for the Study of Popular Culture
City of Kirksville, Missouri
Consumer credit (Infoseek)
Common Sense Environmentalist
Eagles: The National Foundation to Protect America's Eagles
Footprints in the Sand
Free Eagles 's Home Page
General Social Survey
Global Resources Program - Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Heartland Institute
Human Life International Homepage
Institute for Justice Home Page
Institute for Humane Studies
JobsOnline.com
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
Junk Science Debunked
Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs
Monster.com
National Teaching & Learning Forum
Portrait of America - #1 Source for public opinion data
Survivors Foundation
The American Enterprise Institutefor Public Policy Research
The Jerome Levy Economics Institute
Urban Legends -- More Urban Legends
Violence Against Women Office (U.S. Department of Justice)
Welcome to the Planets
Welcome to Thoughts.com
World Climate Report
World Congress of Families II
World Lecture Hall
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Miscellaneous Fun Stuff

Artists' Biographies
Auction Warehouse
2 plus 2: The Home of Mathematically Correct
Cabela's - World's Foremost Outfitter, Hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Gear. 1-800-237-4444
JOKE-OF-THE-DAY.com - World's Largest Free Daily JokeList
Representative Poetry On-line
The Land of Quotes - Quotations on every topic traced to their sources
Urban Legends -- More Urban Legends
Vague But True
Welcome to Inkstains! The Home of Editorial Cartoonist Jonathan Brown
Welcome to my Cave!!!
Welcome to Simeon's World of Magic
Wowzone.com. Wish Only Well - the easiest way to improve your life.

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Movie Stuff
Apple - QuickTime 4 Movie Trailers
QuickTime Showcase
Movie-List - MOVIE TRAILERS. PERIOD.
SCREEN IT! ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS FOR PARENTS
Stars Wars Unofficial
Star Wars: Welcome to the Official Web Site
Stargate SG-1
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Last updated: July 4, 2006