Subject Guides - Economics

Economics

Below are some suggested databases for Economics.

Databases

Core Databases

Business Insights Essentials (Gale)

Extensive reference content from Gale’s core business collection; easy-to-use company fundamentals and investment research reports; industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories, and more.

EBSCOHost Business Source Complete

Business Source Complete is the world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content

Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (ProQuest)

CBCA Complete is a current events database combining content from four subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference).

JSTOR Arts & Sciences 1

JSTOR’s first collection includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences 4

This collection expands JSTOR’s coverage in economics, law, education, sociology, psychology, and public policy and administration. It includes noteworthy student-run law reviews, featuring more than a century of top legal scholarship.

Multidisciplinary Databases

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite

Covering all major academic disciplines, Academic Search Elite is a rich resource spanning a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals.

Project Muse Premium Collection

The Premium Collection is MUSE’s foremost collection of high quality, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Journals

Core Journals

Econometrica

Econometrica publishes original articles in all branches of economics – theoretical and empirical, abstract and applied, providing wide-ranging coverage across the subject area. It promotes studies that aim at the unification of the theoretical-quantitative and the empirical-quantitative approach to economic problems and that are penetrated by constructive and rigorous thinking. It explores a unique range of topics each year – from the frontier of theoretical developments in many new and important areas, to research on current and applied economic problems, to methodologically innovative, theoretical and applied studies in econometrics.

Journal of Finance

The Journal of Finance publishes leading research across all the major fields of financial research. It is the most widely cited academic journal on finance and one of the most widely cited journals in economics as well. Each issue of the journal reaches over 8,000 academics, finance professionals, libraries, government and financial institutions around the world. Published six times a year, the journal is the official publication of the American Finance Association, the premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field — from the journal’s traditional emphasis on microtheory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. QJE is invaluable to professional and academic economists and students around the world.

Books

Books

Physical Collections

If you’re not sure exactly what you’re looking for, you may browse the shelves at the following call number locations:

    • HB75 – HB130: History of Economic Thought        
    • HB172: Microeconomics (general)
    • HB172.5: Macroeconomics (general)
    • HB90 – HB99.7: Economic Systems
    • HB99.3 – HB846: Welfare/Poverty
    • HB848 – HB3697: Demographic Economics
    • HC79.E44, HD82 – HD85: Economic Development
    • HD2321 – HD4730: Industrial Organization
    • HD4801 – HD8943: Labour Economics
    • HE1 – HE5999: Transportation Economics
    • HG1 – HG9999: Financial Economics
    • HG201 – HG1496: Monetary Economics
    • HJ9 – HJ9995: Public Economics/Finance
    • HT388: Regional Economics         
    • RA410: Health Economics

Subjects:

Schools of economics

Economics — Moral and ethical aspects

Economic policy

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics

Economics — Popular works

Canada — Economic conditions

Keywords:

Global finance

Economic policy

Economic history

International trade

Risk management

Supply and demand

Cost and benefit

Web Resources

Online Resources

Economics A-Z

Glossary of economic terms and definitions

Citing & Writing

Citation Styles

APS (American Physical Society)

Print resource on Course Reserve. Please visit the Library information desk.

Council of Science Editors Style Guide

Print resource on Course Reserve. Please visit the Library information desk.

Chicago/Turabian

Print resource on Course Reserve. Please visit the Library information desk.

IEEE Style Manual (PDF)

This style is commonly used for Electrical and Computer Engineering.

MLA (Modern Language Association)

Print resource on Course Reserve. Please visit the Library information desk.

Writing Resources for Economics

Essay do’s and don’ts : a practical guide to essay writing

Print resource: General Reserves PE1408 .E54 2017

A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Writing successful undergraduate dissertations in social sciences : a student’s handbook

Print resource: General Reserves   LB2369 .J44 2020

Other Resources

The Purdue Online Writing Lab

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.

Research Tips

Primary Articles

Original Research Articles

These are articles reporting on original research and include elements such as a hypothesis, background studies, literature reviews, detailed methodologies, results, interpretations of findings, and discussions on possible implications and future research. Original research articles are typically longer, ranging from 3, 000 – 12, 000 words. These articles are peer reviewed and cite relevant publications from other authors that relate to the research being conducted.

Case Studies

These articles report on the in-depth study of a specific person, group, or event. They are used in a variety of fields such as psychology, medicine, education, political science, and social work in order to seek patterns and causes of behaviour.

Secondary Articles

Literature Reviews

A literature review is a systematic summary and synthesis of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers. They frequently convey what knowledge and ideas have been established on a topic, as well as critically assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the field. They will often lack a ‘Methods’ section, though they are often peer reviewed. 

Systematic Reviews

These reviews are often designed to provide an exhaustive summary of current evidence in relation to a specific research question, synthesize findings qualitatively or quantitatively, and critically appraise research studies. Systematic reviews use rigorous and transparent review methodologies with the aim of assessing and minimizing bias in the findings.

Meta-analyses

A meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies addressing the same question. The primary aim is to use statistical analyses to determine common truths. Meta-analyses can be part of a broader systematic review.

Special Articles

Including letters to the editor, correspondences, short communications, editorials, pictorial essays

Tertiary/ Gray Literature

Broadly speaking, gray literature is information produced outside of the traditional academic publishing and distribution systems such as academic journals and monographs. Gray literature can include reports, policies, working papers, newsletters, speeches, government documents, and more.
 

As grey literature is produced directly by an individual or organization, for their own either use or wider sharing, it is often more current than academic publications as it is not subject to the delays found in traditional publishing processes.
 

As grey literature does not go through a rigorous peer review process the quality can vary significantly, and it is recommended that these sources be critically evaluated.

Technical reports

These can include scientific studies conducted by Government agencies and NGO which are often not peer reviewed. These types of reports can be found in both scholarly databases and freely on the web.