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"Economics" (11 results)
| American Economy: a Historical Encyclopedia | Volume One contains short entries on key individuals (and the specific role of each in U.S. economic history) and on events, court cases, and legislation, in the light of their influence on the economic life of the nation. Volume Two contains essays that explore broader topics such as the effects of economic policy on education, insurance, the judiciary, and science and technology, from colonial times to the present. Also in Volume Two are selected primary sources—the various acts and policies that have established economic policy throughout U.S. history—and a comprehensive bibliography with full citations. | Economics |
| Encyclopedia of Evaluation | The Encyclopedia of Evaluation covers professional practice as well as academia and chronicles the development of the field: its history, key figures, theories, approaches, and goals. The entries document evaluation as a practice (methods, techniques, roles, people), as a profession (professional obligations, shared knowledge, ethical imperatives, events, places) and as a discipline (theories and models of evaluation, ontological and epistemological issues). ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Economics |
| Encyclopedia of World Poverty | he Encyclopedia of World Poverty provides extensive and current information, as well as insight into the contemporary debate on poverty. It contains over 800 original articles written by more than 125 renowned scholars. The entries contributing to this work explore poverty in various regions of the world, and examine the difficulties associated with the definition and measurement of poverty, along with its causes and effects. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Economics |
| Green Consumerism: an A-to-Z Guide | This encyclopedia endeavors to present a wide-ranging examination of green consumerism, one that reflects the complexity of the subject, and the diversity of views and debates surrounding the concept. The multiplicity of topics and disciplinary perspectives provides a useful survey of the nature of green consumerism, the forms that it takes, the issues that impact it, and the practices it involves. The entries illuminate the multifaceted and sometimes contested contours of green consumerism and the ways it is embedded and shaped in relation to wider cultural, economic, political, and environmental processes. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Economics |
| International Financial Statistics | International statistics and economic data from the IMF on more than 200 countries, from 1945 to the present. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Economics |
| International Trade Statistics Yearbook (Comtrade) | This United Nations resource offers two types of trade data: trade by country and trade by commodity. Trade by commodity provides information on the world trade of individual commodities (3-digit SITC groups) and eleven world trade tables covering trade values and indices. | Economics |
| National Accounts Official Country Info | National Accounts Statistics: Main Aggregates and Detailed Tables contains detailed national accounts data for most countries and areas of the world. The national data for each country and area are presented in separate chapters using uniform table headings and classifications recommended in the United Nations System of National Accounts 1993 (1993 SNA). Data availability varies across countries and fiscal years as not all UN member countries are able to provide a complete set of data. | Economics |
| Regional Economic Conditions (RECON) | Use RECON to drill down to any state, MSA, or county to view standard graphs, tables, and maps depicting economic conditions and how they have changed over time. Economic data is arranged by geography. RECON contains a 'shopping cart' feature that allows the user to assemble charts and tables of interest and then print them together at the end of their session. | Economics |
| U.S. Economics and Statistics Administration | This resource provides access to current national economic data from a number of federal agencies. | Economics |
| World Bank: E-Library | An online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. | Economics |
| World Bank: World Development Indicators | Subsets of the World Development Indicators (WDI) covering 209 countries from 1960 to 2008 translated into Spanish, French and Arabic. | Economics |
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