Economics Subject Guide
World Development Indicators Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series data (1960 to present) for more than 200 countries and 18 country groupings. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Updated monthly. Export to Excel and CSV.
International Financial Statistics Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Historical financial and economic data for IMF member countries. Time series data from 1948. Includes data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
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ABI/INFORM
Global
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The premier business and management database providing extensive coverage
of North America and the world. Search nearly 1,800 worldwide business periodicals
for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques,
theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human
resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international
coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business
and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal.
Academic
Search Premier
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Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650
serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition
to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than
8,200 journals.
Business
Source Premier
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Full text for more than 2,300 serials, including full text for more than
1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Additional full text, non-journal
content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports,
company profiles and SWOT analyses.
CAB
Abstracts
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Although the focus of this database is agricultural and biological information
it is useful for articles on rural tourism development and world agricultural
economics. 1973 to present.
EconLit
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EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides
bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature.
An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes
of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory
and application.
EIU
Online
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This database provides online access to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
publications analyzing and forecasting the economic, political and business
environments of almost 200 countries.
Included in the library's subscription are: Country Reports (quarterly), Country Profiles (annual), Country Commerce (business & trade regulations), Country Finance (taxation & investment), Country Monitor (international executive briefing), Business Asia, Business China, Business Eastern Europe, Business Latin America. Archives go back to 1996.
FirstGov
FirstGov.gov, the official U.S. gateway to all government information.
Hospitality & Tourism Index
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Hospitality and Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly
research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
HTI will contain over 470,000 records from 500 publications. Coverage includes
demographics and statistics, food and beverage management, hotel management
and administration, leisure and business travel, market trends, and more.
JSTOR
Arts and Sciences I Collection
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Provides full-text journal backfiles in various disciplines. The JSTOR project's
primary goal is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important
scholarly journal literature. Selected journals in the following subject
areas are available: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies,
Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics,
Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
LexisNexis
Academic
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Lexis-Nexis database of full text articles back more than 20 years from
over 5600 publications. Use it to find general news; business and financial
information including accounting, auditing and taxation; federal, state
and international legal materials; medical and health information and general
reference sources.
LexisNexis
Congressional
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CIS indexing and abstracting of congressional publications and the CIS Legislative
Histories (1970-present), Congressional Indexes, 1789-1969 and Indexes to
Unpublished Hearings, full text of congressional reports, documents, prints,
bills and the Congressional Record, Prepared statements and selected question & answer transcripts (1988-present), Bill tracking reports and the text
of bills, Public laws and the United States Code Service, Federal Register
and the Code of Federal Regulations, biographical and financial information
and voting records, Rosters, charters and schedules for committees and subcommittees.
LexisNexis
Statistical
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LexisNexis Statistical is a searchable database of statistical tables from
U.S. federal agencies, and state, local, private, association, trade, and
intergovernmental organizations. You may search by subject, title, or agency.
Abstracts link to full-text documents in a variety of formats. Coverage
of some statistical publications goes back to 1973.
NBER
(National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers
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NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers. Provides full-text
of this research organization's working papers from November 1994 to the
present and chapters of its forthcoming books in PDF files. Includes searchable
index.
PAIS
International (OCLC Public Affairs Information Service)
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PAIS International is an index to the world's public and social policy
literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government,
political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences.
It has references and in some cases abstracts of articles from over 3,660
journal titles, books, gray literature, internet material, conference proceedings,
government and ngo documents and statistical publications. Coverage is from
1972 and it is updated monthly.
Project
Muse
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Project Muse provides access to selected full text of approximately 250
scholarly journals published by university presses. The publishers involved
are Johns Hopkins University Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke
University Press, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University
Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Hawaii Press,
University of Texas Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press. Most journals
included are in arts and humanities.
Regional
Business News
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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business
publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business
journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas
within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
ScienceDirect
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ScienceDirect from Elsevier is an internet resource for scientific, technical
and medical information. Using Science Direct you can access over 1,800
peer reviewed academic journals, search over 30 million abstracts from scientific
articles and link out to articles from over 80 other publishers.
STAT-USA
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STAT-USA is a service run by the US Department of Commerce for the US business,
economic and trade community, providing access to Global Business Opportunities & the National Trade Data Bank.
GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) offers daily trade leads from the Trade Opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture. GLOBUS also offers daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency, the United Nations, and the Commerce Business Daily leads.
The NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) provides access to Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, Best Market reports and other programs. The International Trade Library is a comprehensive collection of over 40,000 documents related to international trade. All are full text searchable, as well as keyword searchable by country or product.
World
News Connection
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A foreign news service provided by the National Technical Information Service
of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It contains translations and English-language
news and information gathered by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) from non-U.S. media sources in various regions of the world: Central
Eurasia, China, East Asia, Near East and South Asia, East Europe, West Europe,
the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
NOTE:Only 5 users allowed at one time. If you cannot login, try again later.
Web
of Science
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A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences
(Science Citation Index Expanded) as well as both the Social Sciences Citation
Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Approximately 70% of
the records have author abstracts. Online coverage from 1980 to present.
Find Dissertations and Books
Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog
Use the online catalog to find books, journals, dissertations, videos, more.
Dissertations and Theses
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Dissertations & Theses (PQD&T) includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available for PDF download.
New Books at UHM Library
Interface for identifying new books. Can be limited by keyword and date range.
Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias and Guides
GUIDES
Business information : how to find it, how to use it
Hamilton Main Reference HF5356 .L36 1992
Business information sources
Hamilton Main Reference HF5351 .D36 1993
Directory of international sources of business information
Hamilton Main Reference HD30.35.B355 1989
Economist Guide Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Economics
Hamilton HA29.E28 1997
Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources
Hamilton Main Reference HF5351.E59 1995
Guide to Everyday Economic Statistics
Hamilton HB137.C57 1995
Information sources in economics
Hamilton HB71 .I53 1984
International business information : how to find it, how to use it
Hamilton Main Reference HF54.5 .P33 1994
HANDBOOKS
Economic Indicators Handbook
Hamilton Main Reference HC101.E24 1994
The economist's handbook : research & writing guide
Hamilton HB74.5 .W97 1994
Handbook of key economic indicator
Hamilton Main Reference HC103.R64 1998
Handbook of monetary economics
Hamilton HG221 .H24 1990
GRANTS
Peterson's grants for graduate & postdoctoral study
Hamilton Main Reference (Financial Aids) LB2338.P47 1995
INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS
Journal of Economic Literature
Hamilton Main Reference HB1.J6
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Basic business library : core resources
Hamilton Main Reference Z675.B8 B37 2002
Harvard Business School core collection
Hamilton Main Reference HF5351 .H265
International Bibliography of Economics
Hamilton HB1.A1 I64
Suggestions for a Basic Economics Library
Hamilton Z675.S6 L4
DICTIONARIES
Dictionary of economics
Hamilton Main Reference HB61 .B554 1997
New Palgrave dictionary of economics
Hamilton Main Reference HB61.N49 1997
Palgrave dictionary of economics and the law
Hamilton Main Reference K487.E3 N48 1998
Reuters glossary of international financial & economic terms
Hamilton Main Reference HF1001.R48 1994
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Encyclopedia of American economic history : studies of the principal
movements and ideas
Hamilton Main Reference HC103.E52 1980
Knowledge Exchange business encyclopedia
Hamilton Main Reference HF1001.K52 1997
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of economics
Hamilton Main Reference HB61 .E55 1994
DIRECTORIES
The Economics Institute guide to graduate study in economics and agricultural
economics in the United States of America and Canada
Hamilton Main Reference (College Guides) HB74.8.G84 1995
International economic institutions
Hamilton HF1359 .M44 1992
Directory of economic institutions
Hamilton Main Reference HB74.5 .C37 1990
Directory of business information resources
Hamilton Main Reference HD2425 .D46
Cabell's directory of publishing opportunities in accounting, economics
and finance
Hamilton Main Reference H91.C33
STATISTICS
Agricultural Statistics
Government Documents A 1.47/2:
Budget of the United States Government
Government Documents PREX 2.8:
Business Statistics
Hamilton Main Reference HC101 .A13122
Business Statistics of the United States
Hamilton Main Reference HC101 .A131222
County Business Patterns (by State)
Government Documents C 3.204/3
County and City Extra
Hamilton Main Reference HA203.C68
CPI Detailed Report
Government Documents L 2.38/3
Economic Censuses
Government Documents C 3.277:Ec 7 1987 CD
Economic Report of the President
Hamilton Main Reference HC106.5 A272
Economic Statistics
Hamilton Main Reference HC101.A131222
Employment and Wages, Annual Averages
Government Documents L 2.104/2:993
Guide to Foreign Trade Statistics
Government Documents C36/2 F76
Handbook of Labor Statistics
Government Documents L 2.3/5:985
Standard & Poor's Statistical Service
Hamilton Main Reference HG4921 .S752
State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
Hamilton Main Reference HA202.S727
Statistical Abstract of the US
Hamilton Main Reference HA202.A3
Statistical Reference Index
Hamilton Main Reference Z7554.U5 S79
Statistics of Income, Corporate
Government Documents T 22.35/7:
Statistics on Banking
Government Documents Y 3.F 31/8:1-2/997
Survey of Current Business
Hamilton Main Reference HC101.A13
Vital Statistics of the United States
Government Documents HE20.6210/A:993/V.2/PTA/sec6
BIOGRAPHIES
Adam Smith: the Man and His Works
Hamilton HB103.S6W4
Biographical dictionary of dissenting economists
Hamilton Main Reference HB76 .B5 1992
Great Economists Before Keynes
Hamilton HB76.B54 1986
Great economists since Keynes : an introduction
Hamilton HB76 .B55 1985
In the Fullness of Time
Hamilton E748.D68A3
John Maynard Keynes, Volume One: Hopes Betrayed
Hamilton HB103.K47S57
Lives of the Laureates: Thirteen Nobel Economists
Hamilton HB76.L58 1995
Lives of the Nobel Laureates
Hamilton HB76.L58
Makers of modern economics
Hamilton HB76 .M33 1993
Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist
Hamilton HB119.S75A3
Who's who in economics : a biographical dictionary
Hamilton HB76 .W46 1986
The Worldly Philosophers: Lives, Times, and Ideas of Great Economic
Thinkers
Hamilton HB76.H4
BACKGROUND READING
Capitalism and Freedom
Hamilton HB501.F7
Free to Choose
Hamilton HB501.F72
Hawaii, Islands Under the Influence
Hamilton and Hamilton Hawaiian HC107.H3 K46
Hawaii's Economy
Hamilton and Hamilton Hawaiian HC107.H3 M34
Islands in Transition
Hamilton and Hamilton Hawaiian HC107.H3 H58
Made in America; Regaining the Production Edge
Hamilton HC110.I52 M34
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Hamilton HD82.O565
The Rise of the Western World; A New Economic History
Hamilton HC240.N66
Working in Hawaii: A Labor History
Hamilton and Hamilton Hawaiian HD8083.H3 B44
The Zero-Sum Society
Hamilton HC106.7 T49
Statistics
EIU Online
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This database provides online access to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) publications analyzing and forecasting the economic, political and business environments of almost 200 countries. Statistics can be exported to Excel.
Global Market Information Database (GMID)
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Euromonitor International's GMID is an integrated product for business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. Includes hard-to-find demographic, economic and marketing statistics, as well as lifestyle and market analysis.
NOTE: This resource is restricted for use by UH Manoa students, faculty and staff. You will be prompted to log in to your Library account before proceeding to the resource. Once you have connected to GMID, you will need to create a personal account with Euromonitor. Your personal Euromonitor account will be used each time you access GMID.
International Financial Statistics Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Historical financial and economic data for IMF member countries. Time series data from 1948. Includes data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
LexisNexis Statistical Universe
Licensed for UHM use only
Easy access to statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations with advanced PowerTables™ functionality.
National Trade Data Bank via STAT-USA
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Index of over 120,000 documents from 15 Federal agencies. Includes full-text of market research reports, domestic and foreign economic data, import/export statistics, time series, trade information and regulations and country studies.
UN Comtrade (United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database)
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Official source for imports, exports, re-imports and re-exports for 90% of world trade. Data for over 140 reporter countries detailed by commodity and partner country.
UNData (replaces UN Common Database 2008)
Free web access
"...find official statistics produced by countries and compiled by United Nations data system, as well as estimates and projections. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism."
World Development Indicators Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series data (1960 to present) for more than 200 countries and 18 country groupings. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Updated monthly. Export to Excel and CSV.
Selected Journals for Economics
"Selected Periodicals" are those listed in Katz, Bill Magazines for Libraries, 1997, PN4832.K2 CVR, that are currently owned by Hamilton Library. Search the library catalog for complete holdings information.
The American Economic Review
Hamilton HB1.A5
American journal of agricultural economics
Hamilton S560 .J6
Online
access
American journal of economics and sociology
Hamilton H1 .A48
Online
access
Applied economics
Hamilton HB1 .A665
Online
access
Brookings papers on economic activity
Hamilton HC101 .B785
Online
access
Bulletin of economic research
Hamilton H1 .Y6
Online
access
Business economics
Hamilton HC101 .B88
Online
access
Cambridge journal of economics
Hamilton HB1 .C3
Online
access
Challenge
Hamilton HC101.C455
Online
access
Construction Reports
Government Documents C3.215/3:C
CPI Detailed report
Government Documents L2.38/3
CRB Commodity Yearbook
Hamilton Main Reference HF1041.C737
Econometric theory
Hamilton HB139 .E284
Online
access
Econometrica
Hamilton HB1.E2
Economic development and cultural change
Hamilton HC10 .C453
Online
access
Economic history review
Hamilton HC10 .E4
Online
access
Economic indicators
Government Documents Y4.Ec7Ec7
Online
access
Economic inquiry
Hamilton HB1 .W47
Online
access
Economic journal
Hamilton HB1 .E32
Economic letter
Hamilton HC101.6 .F44
Economic record
Hamilton HC601 .E4
Online
access
Economica
Hamilton HB1.E5
Online
access
Economics and philosophy
Hamilton HB1 .E526
Online
access
Economist
Hamilton HB9.E5
Online
access
European economic review
Hamilton HC240 .E77
Online
access
Explorations in economic history
Hamilton HB615 .E8
Online
access
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Hamilton HG2401.A5
Online
access
History of political economy
Hamilton HB1 .H55
The Indian economic journal
Hamilton HC431.I34
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Journal of asian economics
Hamilton HC460.5.A1 J68
Online
access
Journal of comparative economics
Hamilton HB90 .J67
Online
access
Journal of developing areas
Hamilton HC59.A1 J68
Online
access
Journal of econometrics
Hamilton HB139 .J67
Online
access
Journal of economic behavior & organization
Hamilton HD28 .J594
Online
access
Journal of economic dynamics and control
Hamilton HB1 .J667
Online
access
The Journal of economic history
Hamilton HC10.J826
Journal of economic issues
Hamilton HB1 .J682
Online
access
Journal of economic literature
Hamilton HB1.J6
Journal of economic perspectives
Hamilton HB1 .J63
Journal of economic theory
Hamilton HB1 .J675
Online
access
Journal of european economic history
Hamilton HC240.A1 J68
Journal of health economics
Hamilton RA410.A1 J68
Online
access
Journal of industrial economics
Hamilton HD1 .J6
Journal of institutional and theoretical economics
Hamilton H5.Z4
Journal of international economics
Hamilton HF1 .J65
Online
access
Journal of labor economics
Hamilton HD4802 .J678
Online
access
Journal of macroeconomics
Hamilton HB1 .J689
Online
access
Journal of mathematical economics
Hamilton HB1 .J69
Online
access
Journal of monetary economics
Hamilton HG23 .J683
Online
access
Journal of money credit and banking
Hamilton HG1 .J68
Journal of political economy
Hamilton HB1 .J7
Journal of post keynesian economics
Hamilton HB1 .J72
Online
access
Journal of public economics
Hamilton HB1 .J75
Online
access
Land economics
Hamilton HB1.L229
Online
access
Managerial and decision economics (MDE)
Hamilton HD30.22.M35
Online
access
Manchester school of economic and social studies
Hamilton HB1 .M3
The OECD observer
Hamilton HC240.A1 O2
Online
access
Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Hamilton HC10 .O85
Online
access
The Margin
Hamilton Asia HC431.M35
The petroleum economist
Hamilton Folio HD9560.1.P63
Online
access
Public choice
Hamilton JA1.P822
Online
access
Quarterly journal of economics
Hamilton HB1 .Q3
Quarterly review of economics and finance
Hamilton HB1 .Q8
Online
access
Rand journal of economics
Hamilton HB1 .B45
Online
access
Review of economic studies
Hamilton HB1 .R4
Review of economics and statistics
Hamilton HA1 .R35
Review of political economy
Hamilton HB1 .R46
Online
access
Scottish journal of political economy
Hamilton HB1 .S3
Online
access
Staff papers International Monetary Fund
Government Documents IMF St 13
Survey of Current Business
Government Documents C59.11
Online
access
UCLA Anderson Forecast
Hamilton HC106.6B825
World bank economic review
Government Documents IBRD W 893 Ec 74
Online access
See also UHM Asia Periodicals
About the Economics collection
The collection reflects the mission of the University of Hawaii Department of Economics. The collection consists of approximately 136,000 books and 600+ periodicals concerning Economics as well as many more books and periodicals in related fields.
Library
Collection Policy Statement for Economics
Note:
The book count was calculated by combining the title count from relevant
HB, HC and HD Library of Congress Classification areas. The figures are
based on the 1997 North American Title Count, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Library. The number of serials supporting Economics was calculated by using
a Subject search in the library catalog with the term economics.
Last modified: October 1, 2008