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The Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone

FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.

This site offers a wealth of economic data and information to promote economic education and enhance economic research.

Includes an interactive data application to find information on economic indicators such as GDP, personal income, and foreign investment.

Established in 1885, the AEA is a non-profit, non-partisan, scholarly association dedicated to the discussion and publication of economics research.

CESJ’s mission is to advance liberty and justice for every person through equal opportunity and access to the means to become a capital owner.

CGD works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world’s top decision makers.

The Institute is dedicated to extending the research pioneered by Michael Porter and disseminating it to scholars and practitioners on a global basis.

The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER-affiliated researchers study a wide range of topics and they employ many different methods in their work. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.

CEPR’s policy portal – was set up in June 2007 to promote "research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading economists". Vox's audience consists of economists working in the public sector, private sector, academia and media – as well as students of economics in the broad sense.

Based on the book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard D. Wolff, our work analyzes capitalism critically as a systemic problem and advocates for democratizing workplaces as part of a systemic solution. We seek a stronger, fuller democracy – in our politics and culture as well as in our economy - based on workers’ equal collaboration and shared leadership inside enterprises and throughout society.

The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) is the national grassroots membership organization for worker cooperatives. Our mission is to build a thriving cooperative movement of stable, empowering jobs through worker-ownership. We advance worker-owned, -managed, and -governed workplaces through cooperative education, advocacy and development.

Official website for the European Union.

The Eurobarometer tracks public opinion in Europe on a number of issues, including economics.

A link to the official U.S. Trade Representative's web site.

NAFTA information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The results for a search on NAFTA at ProCon.org. Lots of good analytical materials here.

Website run by a think tank with a critical view of NAFTA.

Official website of the International Monetary Fund.

Developed by Google, this tool uses the IMF World Economic Outlook data. Create graphs that compare different countries' economic indicators in visual form.

Information on the IMF, including research articles and links to books, from the Brookings Institute.

Resource center on the IMF at the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury.

EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, is the primary system for companies and others submitting documents under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Profiles on Fortune 500 companies

A 501(c)(3) public charity that collects, organizes, and presents the information you want in an easy-to-understand format while remaining neutral. Providing nonprofit information to a broad audience at no cost to users

Good free source of company and financial information providing descriptive and analytic data on many publicly traded US and foreign corporations.

To prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity.