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PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:

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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.
  • Oxford Reference Online - Provides full-text access to many subject dictionaries and encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and more. Uses a unique login; see RPCC Library Services under RPCC Support in Moodle, or stop by the Library for more information.

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

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SELECTED E-BOOKS:

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General Reference
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Economic Principles

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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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SELECTED JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, & NEWSPAPERS:

Print periodicals are located in C-119 (LRC)

  • Bloomberg Businessweek
  • The Economist
  • Newsweek
  • Time
  • U.S. News & World Report
  • Wall Street Journal

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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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