Economics

• Select Print Resources
• Subject Headings
• Journal & Article Indexes
• Citation and Style Guides

• Statistics
• Web Resources
• Associations
• Money & Banking

Other Kwantlen Library Resources by Subject guides that may be of interest to Economics students:
Business | Business and Economics Statistics | Marketing | Statistics

• Dictionary of Economics
  REF HB 61 B554 1997 S, R and Online
• Dictionary of Finance and Banking
  HG 151 D58 and Online
• Economics
  HB 171.5 L733 2005 S,R
• The global economy [videorecording]
  HD 59.15 G56 2003 R
  
• Microeconomics : behavior, institutions, and evolution
  HB 172 B67 2004 S
• The Economist guide to economic indicators : making sense of economics
  REF HA 29 E28 2007 S, R, L
• Routledge dictionary of economics
  REF HB 61 R92 2002 S, R, L
• Dictionary of environmental economics
  REF HC79 E5 D53 2001 R
• An eponymous dictionary of economics : a guide to laws and theorems named after economists
  HB 61 E66 2004 S, R, L
• Oxford encyclopedia of economic history
  REF HC 15 O94 2003 v.1-5 R

Subject Headings

You can find more books through our Library Catalogue by searching under the following subect headings:

• Capitalism
• Economics
• Economists
• Economics history
• Economics mathematical
• Economics sociological aspects
• Economics statistical methods
• Environmental economics
• Economic geography
• Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
International economics
Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics
• Money
• Women economic conditions

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Call Numbers

If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:

HB Economics
HB 75-125 Economics history
HB 172 Microeconomics
HB 172.5 Macroeconomics
HB 201-5 Supply and Demand
HB 501 Capitalism
HC Geography, economic
HD 82-85 Economic Policy
HD 4801 Labour
HG Finance

Selected Online Reference Tools

• Encyclopedia of British Columbia - a comprehensive online reference source for BC-related information, containing more than 4,000 articles plus hundreds of sound files, images, maps, charts and graphs.
• Oxford Reference Online - Provides access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works across a broad subject spectrum.

Journals & Article Indexes

• Academic Search Premier
• Business Source Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• The Globe & Mail: Canada's Heritage since 1844
• JSTOR
• Social Sciences Fulltext

Kwantlen Library subscribes to a variety of Economics journals, both in print and online. To find articles on a particular topic use one of our article indexes. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist.

Select Print and Online Journals

Cloverdale=C, Langley=L, Richmond=R, Surrey=S, O=Online

• American Economic Review - R,O
• Bank of Canada Review - R,O
• Canadian Economic Observer - R,S,L,O
• Canadian Journal of Economics - S,O
• Canadian Public Policy - S,O
• Economic Geography - S,O
• Economist - R,S,L,O
• Far Eastern Economic Review - R
• Journal of Economic Literature - R
• Journal of Economic Perspectives - S
• Journal of the History of Economic Thought - O
• Perspectives on Labour and Income - S,O
• Weekly Financial Statistics - O

Citation Styles

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards
• Other Citation Styles

• Bank of Canada - The site of Canada's national bank includes both historical and current financial information.
• IMF - International Monetary Fund contains a wealth of information including the IMF country reports.
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - OECD's site includes statistical information on member countries.
• Standard Industrial Classification - Access to the U.S. Standard Industry Codes (SIC)online through the U.S. Department of Labor.
• Statistics Canada - Choose 'The Economy' for a variety of statistical information related to the Canadian economy.
• Industry Canada - Includes information on GDP by industry and consumer spending reports are included in this section.
• United Nations - Infonation - Easy to use database created by the UN allows users to view and compare statistical data on 185 countries.
• U.S. Census Bureau - Statistical Abstracts of the United States - Contains detailed statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States as well as select international data.
• World Bank - provides data from the Worldbank including the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) and the Economics Growth Project and global issues like poverty.

TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you.

• British Columbia Industry Profiles - Survey of BC industry sectors useful for tracking trends, products and other developments.
• Canadian Encyclopedia - consult the "Economics" section for company information, economics indicators, finance, International Trade and general economics topics.
• Economic Accounts (from Statistics Canada)
• History of Economic Thought
• McMaster Archive for the History of Economic Thought from McMaster University. Bibliographies and some full texts
• NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement.
• Social Science Research Network
  
• Resources for Economists on the Internet - Bill Goffe, Dept of Economics and International Business, University of Southern Mississippi, has compiled this list of resources on the Internet. The site is of interest to economists and students of Economics.
• WebEC - WWW Resources in Economics - Vast collection of sites related to the field of Economics. It includes a useful subject list of Web sites.
• WTO - World Trade Organization

Associations

• American Economics Association - student site - Includes economic issues, economic literature resources and career information.
• Canadian Economics Association - useful information about the discipline of Economics in Canada.
• Scholarly Societies Project - Economics - University of Waterloo's meta-site of scholarly societies in a variety of fields, including Economics.

• Bank of Canada
• Canadian Bankers Association
• Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Finance Canada
• Money Museum - History of money and currency.
• Oanda.com - Oanda.com - exchange rate information.
• TeachMeFinance.com