Readings and Resources

Economics Resources

There are lots of neat materials about economics on the internet.   Some of these are micro and some are macro:

• Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal, www.irpp.org
• Resources For Economists on the Internet http://econwpa.wustl.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html
  (a cornucopia of delights for those who like to browse)
• A very insightful, entertaining economist, Paul Krugman
  www.mit.edu/people/krugman/index.html
• Department of Economics, University of Toronto
  www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/eco/about.html
  (this site has links to many others of interest and to the CHASS web site which is your best source for quick economic data on Canada)
• Bank of Canada - www.bank-banque-canada.ca/
  (want to know about interest rates, exchange rates, the Currency Museum, and much more?)
• Economic data - www.libs.uga.edu/mainref/econdata.html
• Finance Department www.fin.gc.ca/access/sitemaptxt-e.html
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - www.oecd.org/
• Toronto Association for Business Economics Inc. http://207.136.90.253/tabe/
  (an association which brings together professional economists in the Toronto area. They hold meetings on subjects of interest. If you want to make professional contacts with local economists, this might be your place!)
• Statistics Canada - www.statcan.ca/start.html
  (Statistics Canada is Canada's main statistical agency, and a very good one on an international scale. If you are going to be a professional economist, you will need to know Statistics Canada intimately)
• Human Resources Development Canada - www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/common/site.shtml