Course Guides: Economics

Courses listed in the General Catalog

• ECON 2010: Macroeconomics
• ECON 2020: Microeconomics
• ECON 2030: Economic Principles

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• Printable Guides & Handouts
• Suggested Databases
• Selected E-Book Sources
• Call Number Locations of Resources in the Library
• Selected Books in the Library
• Online Resources
• Research Guides: includes citation help

PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:

• Course Guide Handout-Economics (PDF)

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SUGGESTED DATABASES:

• Academic Search Complete - Provides full-text articles from more than 5,500 multi-disciplinary, scholarly journals and publications.
• Business Source Complete - Provides full-text articles from nearly 1,200 business-related serials, and from reference works, reports, company profiles and more.
• CQ Researcher - Provides in-depth, non-biased full-text articles on topics and issues in the news. Includes a bibliography of sources.
• JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive - Provides a multi-disciplinary archive of scholarly journals and other resources across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
• LexisNexis - Provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources, including legal and law resources.

Please note that when accessing the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to login.

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SELECTED E-BOOK SOURCES:

• NetLibrary - Provides access to over 59,000 ebooks (electronic copies of printed books, often in PDF format) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. NetLibrary has an easy to use search interface. (You will need a NetLibrary account to access these e-books from off-campus. Please see the tutorial, Accessing & Using NetLibrary for more information.)




General Reference

• Economics: A Very Short Introduction, 2007, by Partha Dasgupta.
• Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death and Misadventure, 2005, by Simon W. Bowmaker.
• Fifty Major Economists, 2nd Ed.,2006, by Steven Pressman.
• Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion, 1998, by Yanis Varoufakis.
• The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought, 2005, by Alessandro Roncaglia.

Macroeconomics

• Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development and Current State, 2005, by Brian Snowden.
• New Trends in Macroeconomics, 2005, by Claude Diebolt.

Microeconomics

• Microeconomics Demystified, 2006, by Craig A. Depken.
• Microeconomics: Optimization, Experiments, and Behavior, 2006, by John P. Burkett.

Economic Principles

• Basic Economic Principles: A Guide for Students, 2000, by David E. O'Connor.
• Principles of Economic Growth, 1999, by Thorvaldur Gylfason .
• Principles of Economics: Based on Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Principles of Economics, 2003, by Dominick Salvatore.


• Google Book Search - Many full-text ebooks in PDF format, free and available to download. Google Book Search has an easy search interface with option to see only full-text titles.
  
  

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LOCATIONS OF ECONOMICS RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY:

Economics-related topics can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:

• HB - Economic Theory - Demography
• HB71 to HB74 - Economics as a Science
• HB75 - HB130 - History of Economics. History of Economic Theory
• HB131 - HB147 - Methodology
• HB137 - Economic Statistics
• HB172 - Microeconomics
• HB172.5 - Macroeconomics
• HB501 - Capitalism
• HB801 -HB843 - Consumption. Demand
• HC - Economic History and Conditions
• HC79 .C3 - Capital. Capital productivity. Infrastructure
• HC79 .C6 - Consumer demand
• HM548 - Sociology. Relation to Econoics

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SELECTED BOOKS AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY:

General Reference

• American Economists of the Late Twentieth Century, 1996, edited by Warren J. Samuels.
  Call number: HB 119 .A3 A42 1996
• A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2000, edited by Philip Arestis & Malcolm Sawyer.
  Call number: HB 76 .B5 2000
• Economics Basics, 1999.
  Call number: HB 171 .E269 1999 REF, in 2 volumes.
• The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, 2001, by Mark Skousen.
  Call number: HB 75 .S545 2001
• Oxford Dictionary of Economics, 1997, by John Black.
  Call number: HB 61 .B554 1997
• The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics, 1999, by Robert Beynon.
  Call number: HB 61 .R68 1999
• Survey of Social Science: Economics Series, edited by Frank Magill.
  Call number: HB 61 .S94 1991 REF, in 5 volumes.

Macroeconomics

• Learning and Expectations in Macroeconomics, 2001, by George W. Evans.
  Call number: HB 172.5 .E94 2001

Microeconomics

• Microeconomics Demystified, 2006, by Craig A. Depken.
  Call number: HB 172 .D465 2006, also available as an e-book.
• Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory, 2001, by Don Slater.
  Call number: HM 548 .S55 2001

Economic Principles

• American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power, 1993, by John Kenneth Galbraith.
  Call number: HB 501 .G3 1993
• Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-first Century, 2000, by J. W. Smith.
  Call number: HB 95 .S587 2000
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, 2005, by Steven D Levitt.
  Call number: HB 74 .P8 L479 2005
• A General Theory of Competition: Resources, Competences, Productivity, Economic Growth, 2000, by Shelby D. Hunt.
  Call number: HB 238 .H86 2000
• Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System, 1998, by John McMurtry.
  Call number: HB 95 .M385 1998
• The Wealth of Nations, 1994, by Adam Smith, first published in 1776.
  Call number: HB 161 .S65 1994

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ONLINE RESOURCES:

• About.com:Economics, Includes glossaries, information on economic indicators and issues, and more.
• Economics Interactive Tutorials, Developed by Samuel L. Baker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of South Carolina.
• Library of Economics and Liberty, "Is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty," sponsored by the Liberty Fund, Inc. It offers various resources, including articles, blogs, podcasts, online books, an encyclopedia and topic guides.

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