Introductory Economics (to the top)

• US Economy Budget Simulator - Budget Simulator which allows users to try their hands at balancing the US Budget.
• History of Money Page - Contains a collection of essays on the central importance of money in everyday activity, business, and political life in different countries and from the dawn of civilization to the end of the 20th century.

Microeconomics(to the top)

• Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page - University of Pittspurgh Professor Al Roth's page of articles and links related to game theory and experimental economics.
• BLS Home Page - US Bureau of Labor Statistics website which contains data sets and information about a variety of economic variables.

Macroeconomics(to the top)

• US Economy Budget Simulator - Budget Simulator which allows users to try their hands at balancing the US Budget.
• History of Money Page - Contains a collection of essays on the central importance of money in everyday activity, business, and political life in different countries and from the dawn of civilization to the end of the 20th century.
• The Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Busines Cycle Home Page - Collection of links and original material about Quantitative Macroeconomics and especially RBC theory.
• BLS Home Page - US Bureau of Labor Statistics website which contains data sets and information about a variety of economic variables.
• US Census Bureau - Contains up-to-date economic, social, and demographic data and information from the US census.
• Federal Reserve Economic Data - Contains valuable current and historical data on various aspects of the US economy.

Research and Data(to the top)

• The NetEc Group - Collection of services aimed at academic and professional economists including the BibEc and WoPEc collections of working papers, the WebEc directory of economic resources on the Internet, and more.
• Resources for the Economist on the Internet - Hypertext version of Bill Goffe's guide that lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics.
• BLS Home Page - US Bureau of Labor Statistics website which contains data sets and information about a variety of economic variables.
• Federal Reserve Economic Data - Contains valuable current and historical data on various aspects of the US economy.
• US Census Bureau - Contains up-to-date economic, social, and demographic data and information from the US census.
• Data and Story Library - Online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods with real-world examples.
• Williams College Library - Contains the College's extensive collection of electronic journals- notably JSTOR and EconLit, which provide electronic access to leading journals in economics and several other academic disciplines.
• Economics Working Papers Archive - Extensive archive of economics working papers online.
• Economists with Web Pages - List of home pages of economists and some economics departments.

Economic Development(to the top)

• Virtual Library on International Development - Contains a sampling of Internet resources of interest to people in the International Development field.
• Development Economics - This is a page by Suhas Parandekar at Tulane University which contains a systematically organized list of Economic Development links.

Graduate Study(to the top)

• Economics Ph.D. Programs - An extensive list of economics departments with Ph.D. programs in American and Canadian universities.
• Economics Grad School - A guide to grad school in economics with addmission stats, rankings, etc.
• Economists with Web Pages - List of home pages of economists and some economics departments.
• MBA Explorer - The Graduate Management Admission Council maintains this page of information about MBA programs including an extensive list of business schools on the web.
• Law Schools and Libraries - The Virtual World Wide Web Library's list of law schools and libraries on the web.
• Stanford Professor Susan Athey has extremely useful tips here.
• This table of recent outcomes (not a random sample) gives a rough idea of how competitive the graduate school process is.
• The NSF and Javits offer generous outside fellowships (you must be a US resident to apply).
• Mark Foley at Davidson College hosts a page with these and other useful links here.
• Recent Williams graduates who are currently in Economics PhD programs and have graciously agreed to dispense advice are:
  Saumitra Jha, Stanford
  Lock Reynolds, Michigan
  Dan Rosenblum, Yale
• Send questions or comments about graduate study to Professor Ashok Rai, Graduate School Adviser.

Business and Finance(to the top)

• EDGAR - Database of corporate financial statements and related information maintained by the SEC.
• StockMaster - Provides fast delayed stock and mutual funds quotes and historical charts.

Miscellaneous(to the top)

• The Information Economy - Site maintained by Hal Varian containing links and papers about the Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property, and related issues.
• Economic History Services - Central source of information for economic historians containing files of data, list archives, book reviews, etc.

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