Social Sciences

Provides an overview of the Center's activities. Features mission statement, links to related sites, calendar of events, as well as contact details. USA.

African Studies Program.

Offers field courses in Africa with guided integrated studies, biology, anthropology, geology, and political science.

A practical guide on how to learn the Chinese language.

Sells books and journals.

University of Texas at Austin program offers information for current and prospective students. Features news, publications and event calendar.

Community site on Bengali language, arts, literature and history.

Europe-wide information system on cultural policy measures and instruments. Includes country profiles, overview, resource links and related information.

News and commentary about economics and politics in Latin America.

Stockholm University's Institute in Latin American Studies.

Center for Latin American Studies

A non-profit Arab research organization, which is not affiliated with any political organization or government. Features information on journals, bookstore, library, and contact details. Located in Beirut.

Serves as a means of communication between academics, policy-makers, practitioners, journalists and the informed public. Features information for contributors and subscribers. Also offers tables of contents of back issues.

Department of Media and Communications. Norway.

Nonprofit group uses debate training to help urban high school and college students improve their career opportunities. Programs, tools, and news.

Interdisciplinary scholarly organization concerned with rhetoric as a subject of study and instruction. Posts its history and constitution.

A short paper overviewing what a CSA is and what it takes to get one going from a farmers perspective. Includes a good bibliography of resources. Prepared in 1997 by Lane Greer of Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

British charity specialising solely in microfinancial services for the developing world. Provides an overview of clients and activities, affiliated organizations, and accounts, as well as past publications.

An interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction. Includes comprehensive database of development projects and an international procurement marketplace.

Professor of Economics at Duke University. Contains research, software, and contact information.

An annotated collection of links to econometric software resources, by John Kane.

Brief coverage of hundreds of packages relevant to econometricians. Links to other related software lists.

Functions for estimating, simulating, and testing economic models, particularly volatility models.

Article from the Wikipedia open encyclopedia project that discusses history, characteristics and other approaches.

Project to set up a Global Resource Bank as a future alternative to capitalism.

A collection of interactive EconModel applications that includes many of the most important models in microeconomics and macroeconomics.

Electronic journal from the Economics Research Network (part of the Social Science Research Network) that publishes paper abstracts. Fully searchable. Hundreds of abstracts available in the archives.

Detailed fundamental research into monetary gold. Includes history of money, commodity essentials, economic context. Also real-time gold prices and charts.

New Zealand's former Minister of Finance provides economic policy advice, offers consultancy to international and private institutions and sovereign governments.

Discussion of and applet demonstrating the winner's curse. The applet allows one to try different bidding strategies, and simulates results, calculating expected payoffs.

The third international conference being organized by the Indian Statistical Institute, this time jointly with IIT, Madras. Chennai, IIT, Madras, January 3-7, 2000.

Game Practice II in Valencia, Spain, 19-21 July, 2000.

Provides registration and submission information, program, and publication information. Held in Seville.

A listing of links to current news stories and current events in competition law and policy. Updated daily.

Publishes results of laboratory experiments. Tables of contents and supplementary data to selected articles.

Home page at the School of Mathematical Sciences contains publication list and links to selected papers online.

Home page at Stanford University contains course materials, full-text working papers, and vitae.

Faculty page at The Johns Hopkins University with links to full-text working papers and selected publications, teaching materials, and vitae.

Home page at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, includes selected full-text papers and course materials.

Personal page at the University of California, San Diego includes course notes and full-text working papers.

Professor at Institute for Economic Theory, University of Bonn/Germany. Contains CV and list of publications.

Legal brief making extensive use of Arrow's declaration on Microsoft.

Biographical essay by Henry Higgs. Preface to Cantillon's "Essay on the Nature of Trade in General".

Page of downloadable working papers by Robert Fogel. Hosted by the University of Connecticut.

Dr. John Newark talks with Galbraith about some of the major difficulties facing the Third World.

Paul Krugman on the Asian Crisis.

Brief piece on the influence of Malthus on Darwin's ideas.

A paper for the Federal Reserve Bank at Kansas City.

A short biography and an annotated bibliography by David Hart.

A list of Nobel Laureates in Economics with biographical information, books, and related links.