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United States Government
Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Bureau of Economic Analysis Data: National, International, Regional, Industry, and Interactive Data (includes GDP, personal income, balance of payments, direct investment, and more
- Bureau of Economic Analysis Publications: Survey of Current Business, Papers, Working Papers
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Data: Inflation and prices, employment and unemployment, pay & benefits, productivity, international, regional, and more
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Publications: The Economics Daily, Monthly Labor Review, Reports and Bulletins and more
Economic Census
- Economic Census Data: Economic data by industry and topic
- Economic Census Publications: Link to Census Bureau publications, by topic
Federal Reserve Economic Data
- Federal Reserve Economic Data: Over 294,000 economic time series from 80 sources
- Federal Reserve Economic Data Publications: Catalog of publications of the US Federal Reserve System
USA Trade Online
- USA Trade Online Data: Customized reports and charts detailing international trade data
International Organizations
Eurostat
- Eurostat Data: European statistics, including economy, finance, trade, and industry
International Monetary Fund
- International Monetary Fund Data: IMF's International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics, and Government Finance Statistics, and more
- International Monetary Fund Publications: Links to all of IMF's publications; note that not all are freely available
United Nations
- United Nations Data: Includes finance, labor, trade, and other databases, and data by country
World Bank
- World Bank Data: DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains extensive collections of data on a variety of topics
- Reports and Working Papers: From the World Bank's Development Economics Group
- World Bank Publications: Includes books, journal articles, working papers, annual reports, and more published by the World Bank
Country Information
Country commercial guides (written by U.S. Embassy trade experts)
Country statistical agencies (compiled by the Census Bureau)
Country and regional information (World Bank)
Open Educational Resources
MIT Sloan Open Courseware - Class materials from MIT's Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan LearningEdge - Case studies and management flight simulations from MIT's Sloan School of Management
OpenStax - Free textbooks for students - includes economics titles; hosted by Rice University
Open Textbook Library - Free textbooks for students - includes business and economics titles; hosted by the University of Minnesota
Journal Articles, Working Papers, and News
DOAJ - Indexes and provides access to open access, peer-reviewed journals
NBER Economic Indicators and Releases - Daily updates with links to reports
OpenDOAR - Indexes and searches open access repositories
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) - Searchable database of research papers in the social sciences, including economics, finance, management, and related topics