Research Links

    US Government Data/Research Links

    • US Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov)
    • Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov)
    • U.S. Senate (http://www.senate.gov)
    • U.S House of Representatives (http://www.house.gov)
    • Economics Satistics Briefing Room (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/fsbr.html)
    • IRS Tax Info Page (http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/cover.html)
    • IRS Tax Tables (http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/ind_info/tax_tables/index.html)
    • Social Security History Page (http://www.ssa.gov/history)
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    News
    • CNN (http://cnn.com)
    • Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com)
    • New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com)
    • Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com)
    • NPR (http://www.npr.org)
    • PBS (http://www.pbs.org)
    • Christian Science Monitor (htpp://csmonitor.com)
    • Yahoo Stock Quotes (http://quote.yahoo.com)
    • The Economist (http://www.economist.com)
    • Marketplace (http://www.marketplace.org)

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    Economic Data/Research Links
    • Fortune 500 Top Performers (http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/fortune500/perform.html)
    • National Budget Simulation (http://www.budgetsim.org/nbs/)
    • Economic Education Web (http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teach-ec.htm)
    • History of Economic Thoughthttp://cepa.newschool.edu/het/home.htm
    • The Dismal Scientist (http://www.dismal.com)
    • Opinions on Social Security:

      •         www.brook.edu (liberal perspective)
              www.concordcoalition.org/socialsecurity
              www.socialsecurity.org (conservative perspective)
    Economics Alumni Resources
    • For information about investing, stocks, bonds, and retirement savings (http://www.fool.com)
    • Picking a new place to move? This website compares different cities cost of living, crime rate, quality of education, climate, etc. (http://www.homefair.com)


    Sources for Classroom experiments

    • Ted Bergstrom and John Miller.  Experiments with Economic Principles. McGraw Hill, 1997.  (http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/miller/eep/eep.html)

      • Greg Delemeester and John Neral.  Classroom Experments.  A User's Guide.  Houghton Mifflin, 1995. (http://www.marietta.edu/~delemeeg/expernom.html


    My Favorite Sites

      • The Onion - humorous articles on current events (http://www.theonion.com)
      • Emode - oddball, fun personality tests (http://www.emode.com)
      • The Rainforest Site - clicks donate to preserving the rainforest (http://www.rainforestsite.org)
      • Rotten Tomatoes - summary of film reviews from around the country (http://www.rottentomatoes.com)
      • Homestar Runner - hilarious cartoons (http://www.homestarrunner.com)

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