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From: bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.econ.research,sci.econ,sci.answers,news.answers
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Subject: Economists' Resources on the Internet
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Date: 26 Mar 1994 21:10:15 -0600
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Summary: This documents contains a list of resources of interest
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to economists. It should be of interest to anyone looking
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for economic data and many types of related information.
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Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu sci.econ.research:839 sci.econ:10642 sci.answers:1015 news.answers:16883
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Archive-name: econ-resources-faq
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Sci-econ-research-archive-name: econ-resources-faq
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Last-modified 1994/3/26
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Version: 5.1
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RESOURCES FOR ECONOMISTS ON THE INTERNET
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Bill Goffe
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Dept. of Economics and International Business
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University of Southern Mississippi
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Hattiesburg, MS 39406
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bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu
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(601) 266-4484 (office)
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(601) 266-4920 (fax)
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March 26, 1994
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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+ 0. NOTE
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1. INTRODUCTION
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2. NEW IN THIS VERSION
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3. U.S. MACRO AND U.S. REGIONAL DATA
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A. Economic Bulletin Board (EBB)
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B. EconData
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* C. Bureau of Labor Statistics (LABSTAT)
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D. Federal Reserve
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E. New England Electronic Economic Data Center (NEEEDc)
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4. OTHER DATA (INCLUDING NON-U.S.)
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A. Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
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B. National Archives Center for Electronic Records
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C. Social Security Administration (OSS-IS)
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D. FedWorld
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E. Public Domain Financial Data
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F. Census
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G. EDGAR
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H. Vienna Stock Market
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I. Productivity Analysis Research Network (PARN)
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J. U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service
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K. World Bank Public Information Center (PIC)
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L. Wall Street Journal and New York Times News Service
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5. WORKING PAPER ARCHIVES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERVICES
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A. NetEc (BibEc & WoPEc)
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B. Working Paper Archive (Wash. Univ., St. Louis)
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C. Feminist Economists Discussion Group Archive
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6. GOPHERS
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A. Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University
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B. Computational Economics Gopher
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C. ClioNet (Cliometric Society)
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D. National Bureau of Economic Research Gopher
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E. Academe This Week (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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F. Washington Univ. at St. Louis Econ. Dept.
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G. RiceInfo
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H. University of Michigan Economics Department
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I. Communications for a Sustainable Future
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J. SunSITE
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K. RISKNet
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L. Florida State College of Business
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7. UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH LIBRARY CARD CATALOGS
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A. Research Libraries in General
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B. Library of Congress
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C. North Carolina State University's "Library Without Walls"
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8. PROGRAM LIBRARIES
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A. Netlib
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B. Statlib
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C. Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Statistical Library
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9. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
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A. Iowa Electronic Markets
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10. USENET NEWSGROUPS
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11. MAILING LISTS
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A. Introduction
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B. Single Topic Mailing Lists
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C. Financial Economists Network (FEN)
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12. DATA RELATED TO THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION
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A. Graduate Programs
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13. WORD PROCESSING
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A. TeX References
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B. TeX Macros for Economics and TeX Sources
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14. PROGRAMS FOR ECONOMISTS ON THE INTERNET
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A. BCI Data Manager
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15. USEFUL BOOKS, PROGRAMS, AND RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET
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A. Books
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B. On-Line Guide
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C. Software
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D. Resources
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16. NON-INTERNET RESOURCES
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A. Introduction
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B. Federal Reserve Bank Bulletin Boards
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C. Electronic JEL Index
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D. On-Line Refereed Economics Journal
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+0. NOTE
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+ This version is a repeat of the last version with one correction.
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+ It was issued since the previous version was due to expire on Usenet
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+ sites and I have not had the time to write up the next version. A
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+ new draft should be ready in a few weeks.
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1. INTRODUCTION
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This document, which is updated every six weeks or so, and its
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successors, can be found in several places. They include, via ftp,
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rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/sci.econ.research and, via gopher,
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at the Economics Working Paper Archive at Washington
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University at St. Louis and the Economics Gopher at Sam
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Houston State University. Finally, I'd be happy to send it
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out via email to all who request it.
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This is my fifth stab at this document. I am very interested
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in any corrections, suggestions, omissions, and hints anyone
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might have. Hopefully, a refined version will be appearing in
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The Journal of Economic Perspectives along with a description of
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the Internet and the tools used to access it. Thus, any
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suggestions you might have may reach a large audience.
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While relatively few economists use the Internet, there is a
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surprising amount of very useful information on it. For instance,
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there are two very extensive sets of U.S. macro data, detailed
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data from the Fed and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a
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bibliography of some 35,000 working papers in economics, household
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surveys from 21 countries, three interactive electronic markets, more
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than 50 mailing lists and two Usenet newsgroups.
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I apologize for any crosslistings. However, it appears that
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economists use many different lists, so to reach the broadest
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audience, crosspostings are unavoidable.
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Some of the information is not as complete as I would wish.
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Further, some of the resources I have not investigated
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thoroughly and I cannot vouch for them. While I catalog many
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mailing lists, I have little information about the volume and
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types of discussions.
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Most of the resources I was able to find deal with the United
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States. Leads on information on other countries would be
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appreciated.
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I would like to acknowledge many people who have commented and
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made suggestions on previous versions of this document. Without
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their help, there would be fewer resources listed and the existing
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descriptions would be more difficult to read. In particular, I
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would like to thank Forrest Smith for suggesting I undertake this
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project, and Thomas Krichel, George D. Greenwade and Bob Parks for
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constant suggestions. More generally, I have received help from
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Mona Andersen, Kit Baum, Eric Branckaert, Christian Burks, David
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Chester, Alex Deacon, Karen Ewens, Daniel Feenberg, Gary Ferrier,
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Matthew Flynn, James R. Garven, Seth Greenblatt, Dave Hartland,
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Christian Helmenstein, Doug Henwood, Joe Hirschburg, Prue Hyman,
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Alan G. Isaac, Nicholas Karatjas, Ray Kiddy, Michael Kosz, Gary F.
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Langer, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Wayne Marr, Clive Massey, Ty B.
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Mitchell, Peter Mitter, Keith Morgan, Ron Overman, Tim Parker,
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Karl B. Radov, Shyamala Raman, Terry Rephann, Rob Raisch, Ken
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Rogers, Larry Rosenburg, Lauri Saarinen, Terry Schroepfer, Ajay
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Shaw, Ross Shaw, George Slotsve, Timothy Smeeding, Una Smith,
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Johannes Strasser, Hal Varian, Edward Vielmetti, Larry Weiser,
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David Wildasin, Sam Williamson, Stephen Yeo, Edith Wu, and Grace
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York.
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Notes:
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- Items in " " are typed directly as commands.
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- Unless otherwise stated, FTP means anonymous FTP.
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- I give directions for gopher in what I call direct and
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indirect methods. Some gopher client software allows you
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to "point" at a gopher site (the direct method), while other
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software does not, so you have to navigate through
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gopherspace (the indirect method). With the indirect
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method, you must first find the gopher directory devoted
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to what is usually titled "Other Gophers" (generally in the
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top or next to top menu).
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- Many of the gophers devoted to economics are interconnected;
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no mention is made of this below since it would take a lot
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of space to say who is connected to whom. The gophers at Sam
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Houston State University, the Economics Department at
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Washington University in St. Louis and RiceInfo seem to have
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the greatest number of interconnections.
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- For both gophers and anonymous FTP sites, the location is
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given as host:directory. Thus, in the directions for EconData,
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you'll see the FTP site given as info.umd.edu:/info/EconData.
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This means that you do an anonymous ftp to info.umd.edu and
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change to the /info/EconData directory (be sure to preserve
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case when typing).
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- For World Wide Web resources, Uniform Resource Locators
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(URL) are used to denote their location. They have the form
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resource://host:#/directory. A future version of this
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document will employ this increasingly popular standard.
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- Information about compressed files, converting binary files
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to text so they can be emailed and converted back to binary,
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and locations on gopher software can be found in the section
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titled USEFUL BOOKS, PROGRAMS, AND RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET.
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2. NEW IN THIS VERSION
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New resources in this draft are denoted with a + in the first
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column, while changes to resources mentioned previously are denoted
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with a * in the first column.
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Major new entries in this draft include the SEC's EDGAR
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database of corporate fillings, LABSTAT, a very extensive
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database from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve
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data, documents from the World Bank, and the Financial
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Economists Network, a group of mailing lists in that field.
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Finally, in a nice preview of the future of the Internet, fully
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formatted working papers from the Working Paper Archive at
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Washington University in St. Louis can be viewed on-line.
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3. U.S. MACRO AND U.S. REGIONAL DATA
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A. Economic Bulletin Board (EBB)
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This service is an outgrowth of a dial-up bulletin board
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offered by the U.S. Department of Commerce. It contains
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more than 2,000 files from the Departments of Commerce,
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Labor and Treasury, the Federal Reserve and other agencies.
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The EBB is currently offered on the Internet in two places.
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The first is a telnet interface to the EBB at the Department
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of Commerce, and the second is at a library gopher at the
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University of Michigan.
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EBB at the Commerce Department
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This resource began charging for their services on Oct. 1.
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Charges for Internet telnet access follow.
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Timed Charges:
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Annual subscription fee $45
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Credit for connect charges $20
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8AM - noon (Eastern) $24/hour
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noon - 6PM $18/hour
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6PM - 8AM (& holidays, $6/hour
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weekends)
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Flat Fees
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Up to 1 hour/day $250/year
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Up to 4 hours/day $400/year
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The current telent interface is basically that used for the dial-
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up bulletin board. Thus, one must capture on the information
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from the screen or use a bulletin board type download (such
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as Kermit). I have not tried the later and can offer no advice.
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To capture all screen data on a Unix system, one can do
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"telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov | tee ebb.data"
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where tee takes the screen data and places it in the file
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ebb.data.
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FTP and gopher access may be available at this time; plans
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were to charge by the amount transferred.
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Limited guest accounts are available, use "guest" as the
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password. You are limited to 20 minutes of connection time
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and not all files are available.
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Most information is in four areas: the bulletin system (which
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describes how to use the system), the file system (which
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contains files), the trade promotion system,and the utilities
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system (which sets passwords, terminal types, etc.) Basic
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information on the system can be found in the bulletin system
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(entered by typing "B") under "3", while a listing of files can
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be found in the file listing system (entered by typing "L")
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under 17.
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Data comes in several formats. Some comes in DOS self
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extracting files, some in .PRN (so it can be used in
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spreadsheets or software that can import spreadsheet data),
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and some in a specialized format.
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TELNET: ebb.stat-usa.gov
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EBB at the University of Michigan Library Gopher
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The University manually downloads files daily from the dial-
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up EBB. It is said to contain 700 files; I have no information
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on the different numbers of files contained by the two
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versions of the EBB. Information on file formats and the
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system in general can be found under the heading "Current
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Business Statistics" and "EBB and Agency Information and
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misc. files." As with the Commerce Department location,
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data comes in several different forms. A convenient listing of
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all directories for the EBB can be found in a file called
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"Contents of the Ulibrary Gopher" at the "University of
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Michigan Libraries" (described below).
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One good educational use of this gopher is recent press
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releases concerning economic statistics. I frequently use
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it just before class to check the most recent numbers.
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The directory directly above EBB at the University of Michigan
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contains a variety of useful information.
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TELNET: una.hh.lib.umich.edu (login as "gopher" and move
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to /Social Science Resources/Economics)
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GOPHER (direct): una.hh.lib.umich.edu /socsci/Economics
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GOPHER (indirect): USA/Michigan/University of Michigan
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Libraries/Social Science Resources/Economics
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B. EconData
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This database, collected by INFORUM, a project building an
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inter-industry model of the U.S. economy, processes a wide
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variety of macro data and places it in a common format. Data
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includes the National Income and Product Accounts, balance
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of payments, flow of funds, CPI, PPI, the Penn World Trade
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Tables (permission needed), International Financial Statistics
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(if your organization is a member of the Inter-University
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Consortium for Political and Social Research), blue pages
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from the Survey of Current Business, and state and local data
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including employment, earnings, GSP and state personal
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income.
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The data is accessed by programs (only for Pcs) provided by
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this project and it can easily be output to ASCII or into a
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spreadsheet format. The data is also compressed with pkzip,
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and they provide this and similar programs as well.
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For introductory information, see "Instruction/contents.doc"
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and "Instructions/guide.doc".
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The program that retrieves data (PDG) is relatively
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straightforward, but let me add my own experiences. First,
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you may need to change the path to the help files in the
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g.cfg file. Assuming that you're in a directory with one
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of the unzipped data files, start the program by typing
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"pdg". Then, a return will allow you to start normally.
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The command "look" allows one to survey the data in that
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file (additional commands are found on the bottom of the
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screen that allow you to print the data to the screen or
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graph it). One leaves the look command with an escape. To
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print the data to an external file in columns, use the
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"matty" command. After typing "matty" and the full file
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name you choose, you'll be prompted for the series names
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that can be obtained with "look". Don't separate series
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names with commas and be sure to end the command with a
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semicolon. The output of matty lists dates in the first
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column, but you'll need to modify the fractions used to
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denote months and quarters. Finally, you can easily plot
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data to the screen to get an approximate idea of what it
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looks like.
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TELNET: info.umd.edu (login as "gopher" and move to
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/Educational Resources/Economic Data)
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GOPHER (direct): info.umd.edu:/Educational
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Resources/Economic Data
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GOPHER (indirect): USA/Maryland/University of Maryland
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/Resources/Economic Data
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FTP: info.umd.edu:/info/EconData
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* C. Bureau of Labor Statistics (LABSTAT)
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This site offers very detailed data in a number of areas.
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Quoting from their documentation, they include:
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Average Price Data
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Collective Bargaining-State & Local Gov't
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Collective Bargaining-Private Sector
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Consumer Price Index-All Urban Consumers
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Consumer Price Index-Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers
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Employee Benefits Survey
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Employment Cost Index
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Employment, Hours, & Earnings-National
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International Price Index
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Special Export Comparison Index
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Employment Projections by Industry
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Geographic Profile
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Occupational Injury & Illness Rates
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International Labor Statistics
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Local Area Unemployment Statistics
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Department Store Inventory Price Index
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Major Sector Multifactor Productivity Index
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Producer Price Index Revision-Current Series
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Producer Price Index Revision-Discontinued Series
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Federal Government Productivity Index
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Industry Labor Productivity Index
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Major Sector Productivity & Costs Index
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State & Area Employment, Hours, & Earnings
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Occupational Injury and Illness Rates
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Producer Price Index
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Work Stoppage Data
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Data is generally quite disaggregated; overall, there are many
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megabytes of files. Besides historical data, recent press releases
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are available.
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All data is in the pub directory, which contains a further
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three directories: doc, news.release, and time.series. For
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a short introduction, read the README file in the pub directory,
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while information on how the files are stored is located in
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the overview.doc file in the doc directory.
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In general, the news releases in the news.releases directory
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are quite useful for tracking current events, while the great
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amount of detail in the actual time series appears to take
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some effort to use.
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* FTP: stats.bls.gov
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INFORMATION (on Internet access): labstat.helpdesk@bls.gov
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INFORMATION (on data issues): see the contact.doc in /pub/doc
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D. Federal Reserve
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To paraphrase from the README file for this information,
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this data is from PC disks made available by the Board of
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Governors and placed on the Internet by the Internet
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Multicasting Service (which, among other things, helps
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run EDGAR and the Internet's own "radio" show, "Geek of
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the Week.").
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In general, the data is quite extensive and detailed. Most
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dates back a number of years. All is in ASCII form, but some
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of the columns widths are more than 80 characters and some of
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the names are less than intuitive. As always, be sure to read
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all the information provided in the various help files.
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All data is in the fed directory. Quoting from the README
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file in that directory, the data is in the following directories:
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flow Flow of funds tables.
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g_17 Industrial production and capacity utilization.
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g_17_his Industrial production and capacity utilization.
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h_3 Reserves of depository institutions.
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h_4_2 Weekly series on assets and liabilities of
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large commercial banks.
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h_15 Selected interest rates.
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money Money stock measures and components.
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others Other Federal Reserve data tables.
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Each directory contains many files and some even contain other
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directories of data. In each, there are several compressed files
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in different formats (denoted with different filename suffixes)
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with that directory's files. Each directory also contains a file
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with information on the data in that directory (the names of these
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files vary).
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FTP: town.hall.org:/other/fed
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E. New England Electronic Economic Data Center (NEEEDc)
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This database, the bulletin board of the Federal Reserve
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Bank of Boston, specializes in data on the New England
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economy. It carries all historical data published in the
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's New England Economic
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Indicators (some 90 variables from 1969 for all states and
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some metropolitan areas) and GSP data for the New England
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area from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data is in
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.PRN format, so it can be read directly by Lotus or
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Quatro.
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FTP: neeedc.umesbs.maine.edu
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INFORMATION: Jim Breece (breece@maine.maine.edu)
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4. OTHER DATA (INCLUDING NON-U.S.)
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A. Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
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This project brings together 66 household surveys from 21
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|
countries into a common database to make studies of
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international economic comparisons easier. For instance,
|
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it includes Current Population Surveys from the U.S.,
|
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French Surveys of Income, and a Hungarian Income Study.
|
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The average survey has approximately 9,000 households with
|
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more than 20,000 members. To maintain confidentiality and
|
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restrictions on use, the data remains on the host computer
|
|
in Luxembourg and researchers run jobs remotely on that
|
|
system through electronic mail. Users must first register
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to use the database.
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They also have an annual database of 100 macro indicators
|
|
available on floppy disks to put the household surveys in
|
|
context. This database also contains rules on taxes and
|
|
transfers in each country to make international comparison
|
|
meaningful.
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The datasets are well documented, and workshops and
|
|
newsletters help the researcher to use this complex
|
|
database.
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INFORMATION: Tim Smeeding (smeeding@suvm.bitnet)
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Caroline de Tombeur (eplisjr@luxcep11.bitnet)
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B. National Archives Center for Electronic Records
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|
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|
The National Archives has a branch devoted to the storage
|
|
of electronic records from many federal entities. Of
|
|
interest to economists are records from the Bureaus of the
|
|
Census, Economic Analysis, and Labor Statistics, the Civil
|
|
Aeronautics Board, Department of Transportation, IRS, SEC,
|
|
and Social Security Administration. While the records are
|
|
not available over the Internet (at least not yet),
|
|
detailed information about them, including a listing of
|
|
"data files" and ordering information for the data files
|
|
(generally available only on 9-track tape reels or 3480
|
|
tape cartridges) are available. Currently, some 6,200 data
|
|
files out of more than 14,000 available are listed in a
|
|
rapidly growing list. Some of the data files are old,
|
|
while some are relatively recent. Some entities have only
|
|
a small selection of data, while for others, the listings
|
|
are more complete. Unfortunately, the tapes are
|
|
relatively expensive at either $80.75 or $90.00 (depending
|
|
upon the medium) with additional tapes at $24.50. One can
|
|
hope that a less expensive on-line database is not too far
|
|
in the future. Since a comprehensive list of files here is
|
|
impossible, the interested researcher should examine
|
|
them. Much more information about this service can be
|
|
found in the directory listed below.
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|
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FTP: ftp.cu.nih.gov:/NARA_ELECTRONIC
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|
Directions: anonymous FTP, but press
|
|
the return key for the password
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C. Social Security Administration (OSS-IS)
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|
|
|
The Social Security Administration Office Support System
|
|
Information Server (OSS-IS) recently has placed their
|
|
internal system on the Internet as an experiment. Data
|
|
includes monthly benefits, current operating statistics,
|
|
history of benefits paid and income data on the aged. Key
|
|
files are "index" which describes the files available,
|
|
and "orsindex_txt," which describes files from the SSA's
|
|
Office of Research and Statistics, which are likely to be
|
|
of the most interest for economists. Using these files,
|
|
one can fairly quickly locate the desired data.
|
|
|
|
The e-mail interface comes from Netlib, so an introduction
|
|
can be obtained by sending e-mail to the address listed
|
|
below with "send index" in the body of the message. For
|
|
FTP, the files "index" and "orsindex_txt" are available in
|
|
the "pub" directory.
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|
|
|
E-MAIL: info@ssa.gov
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|
FTP: soaf1.ssa.gov:/pub
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|
INFORMATION: info@ssa.gov
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|
|
D. FedWorld
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|
|
|
This site provides an entry-way from the Internet to many
|
|
U.S. Government Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that one
|
|
usually contacts via a phone and modem at (703) 321-8020.
|
|
While there is relatively little material directly related to
|
|
economics that cannot be obtained more directly, it is a useful
|
|
connection to many databases. Access is only through telnet.
|
|
|
|
TELNET: fedworld.gov (new address; the old one is fedworld.doc.gov)
|
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|
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|
|
E. Public Domain Financial Data
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|
|
|
This site allows those with financial data they would like
|
|
to share to place it at a common site. Thus, some caution
|
|
might be advised since the data may not be "official."
|
|
Details about this site can be found in the README file
|
|
and a list of the extensive set of files at this site can
|
|
be found in the file named "ls-lR".
|
|
|
|
FTP: dg-rtp.dg.com:/pub/misc.invest
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|
|
|
F. Census
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|
|
|
A common site for U.S. and some Canadian Census
|
|
information is located at this gopher. This gopher
|
|
provides links to other gophers that actually contain the
|
|
data. The material is not coordinated, so some searching
|
|
may be in order. I was particularly impressed with the
|
|
collection at the University of Missouri - they have data
|
|
for all U.S. counties and cities.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): riceinfo.rice.edu:/Information
|
|
by Subject Area/Census
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Texas/RiceInfo
|
|
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|
|
|
G. EDGAR
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|
|
|
This database opened in January. It covers fillings by U.S.
|
|
public companies made to the SEC. It covers such things as 10K,
|
|
10Q, annual, quarterly reports and many other items. In all,
|
|
the SEC receives 10 million pages a year of such data. Plans
|
|
were for 3,000 companies to file electronically into EDGAR by
|
|
the end of 1993, with all 15,000 companies required to file
|
|
with the SEC eventually required to file into EDGAR.
|
|
|
|
Previously, this database was available only through Mead Data
|
|
in either inconvenient locations or at very considerable
|
|
expense. In an experiment, it is now be available at no cost
|
|
over the Internet. This service is provided and funded by the
|
|
NSF, the NYU Stern School of Business, and the Internet
|
|
Multicasting Service, run by Carl Malamud, an economist at the
|
|
Board of Governors.
|
|
|
|
This database only covers fillings made in 1994 for public
|
|
consumption, when made electronically by the filling company.
|
|
Thus, it does not cover earlier years, current paper fillings
|
|
or non-public ones. Even so, the data is extensive; there appear
|
|
to be more than 6,000 fillings for January alone.
|
|
|
|
As the experiment progresses, there will be many changes in the
|
|
design of the database (for instance, a World Wide Web
|
|
interface is envisioned). Be sure to read the file general.txt
|
|
in the main directory for the latest information. Currently,
|
|
the files form.idx and company.idx in the main directory list
|
|
the fillings. The first is ordered by the type of form, and the
|
|
second by the company (both contain the same information, just
|
|
in different order). Entries in both of these files list the file
|
|
in the data1 directory with the relevant filling.
|
|
|
|
FTP: town.hall.org/edgar
|
|
EMAIL: mail@town.hall.org (send HELP in the body to receive info)
|
|
INFORMATION: edgar-interest@town.hall.org (mailing list on edgar; to
|
|
subscribe to it, send email to: edgar-interest-request
|
|
@town.hall.org)
|
|
|
|
|
|
H. Vienna Stock Market
|
|
|
|
Data from the Vienna Stock market is available via telnet.
|
|
I understand that it includes same day prices and volumes
|
|
and retains this data for a couple of months. The language
|
|
is German.
|
|
|
|
TELNET: fiivs01.tu-graz.ac.at (login as "BOERSE")
|
|
GOPHER (direct): olyjp.wu-wien.ac.at
|
|
|
|
|
|
I. Productivity Analysis Research Network (PARN)
|
|
|
|
This organization is composed of researchers doing work in
|
|
the area of productivity analysis. Data is maintained at
|
|
two sites: BYU University and European Concise site in the
|
|
U.K. The former offers a standard ftp site, and the latter
|
|
uses a nonstandard interface accessed through telnet and
|
|
one through email. Both sites contain information on the
|
|
organization, a membership list, guides, and a newsletter.
|
|
|
|
TELNET: concise.level-7.co.uk (login as "concise", use
|
|
the password "concise", and move to "networks",
|
|
then "parn" by using the numbers of the left
|
|
side of the panel)
|
|
FTP: ipm.byu.edu:/parn
|
|
EMAIL: concise@concise.level-7.co.uk
|
|
send following for automatic information:
|
|
start
|
|
goto networks/parn/conc-guide
|
|
info
|
|
INFORMATION: Mona Andersen (moa@busieco.ou.dk)
|
|
|
|
|
|
J. U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service
|
|
|
|
This project is jointly sponsored by the Mann Library at
|
|
Cornell University and the Economic Research Service of the
|
|
U.S. Department of Agriculture. It contains more than 140 data
|
|
sets, and more are due to be added. These data sets cover a
|
|
very wide range of agricultural topics, and even include
|
|
international and climate data. They are frequently quite detailed,
|
|
and are mostly in Lotus 1-2-3 .WK1 format (thus, if you transfer
|
|
them with FTP, be sure to use the binary mode). Gopher is the
|
|
preferred connection method (files cannot be transferred with
|
|
Telnet unless your Telnet client can call FTP).
|
|
|
|
TELNET: usda.mannlib.cornell.edu (login as "usda")
|
|
GOPHER (direct): usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/New York/Cornell University, Albert R. Mann
|
|
University Library
|
|
FTP: usda.mannlib.cornell.edu:/usda
|
|
INFORMATION: Oya Y. Rieger (oyr1@cornell.edu).
|
|
|
|
|
|
K. World Bank Public Information Center (PIC)
|
|
|
|
In a recent policy change, the World Bank is making more
|
|
operational information publicly available, and the Public
|
|
Information Center (PIC) is part of this process. While past
|
|
data is not being released, as time marches on, more and more
|
|
information will be available through the PIC. Such data covers
|
|
a number of areas, including projects under development, Staff
|
|
Appraisal Reports (SARs), some Country Economic and Sector
|
|
Work (CESW) reports, Sectoral Policy Papers, Environmental
|
|
Data Sheets, some environmental assessments, National Environmental
|
|
Action Plans (EAPs), and evaluation reports from the Operations
|
|
Evaluation Department. This gopher also has information on
|
|
World Bank Publications (including ordering information).
|
|
|
|
GOPHER: gopher.worldbank.org
|
|
|
|
|
|
L. Wall Street Journal and New York Times News Service
|
|
|
|
According to "Dow Jones to Offer News Over Internet by
|
|
Mid-'94," Wall Street Journal, 1/27/94, p. B6, the Wall Street
|
|
Journal will be available over the Internet by the middle of
|
|
this year. To quote: "The service, to be called DowVision on
|
|
the Internet, will include the full text of the Wall Street
|
|
Journal, and same-day text of the Yew York Times News Service,
|
|
the Dow Jones News Service, Dow Jones International News
|
|
Service and press-release services.... Dow Jones said it will
|
|
charge a flat monthly fee, still to be determined."
|
|
|
|
In "Curtain's Rising on a Third Generation of On-Line Services,"
|
|
John Markoff, New York Times, 1/30/94, p. 10 (Business), more
|
|
is reported on this service. It says that Wais, Gopher and Mosaic
|
|
interfaces will be used for this experiment, which is offered
|
|
in a joint venture between Dow Jones and Wais, Inc. The New York
|
|
Times News Service will be offered next year.
|
|
|
|
|
|
5. WORKING PAPER ARCHIVES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERVICES
|
|
|
|
A. NetEc
|
|
|
|
This gopher site has two parts: BibEc, a bibliography of
|
|
working papers in economics, and WoPEc, an electronic
|
|
collection of working paper. BibEc includes some 35,000
|
|
entries from about 250 different working papers series.
|
|
These series include those major of major universities and
|
|
research institutions, including the Fed in Print database of
|
|
the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Coverage dates from 1988, with
|
|
the exception of NBER working papers (all are covered), UCSD
|
|
from 1981, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research in
|
|
London from 1983. Searches can be made by keywords. This is
|
|
one of the most valuable resources for economists on the
|
|
Internet. Fethy Mili <mili@ere.umontreal.ca>, a librarian at
|
|
the Universite de Montreal, maintains an extensive collection of
|
|
working paper series. He is to be commended for entering the
|
|
data. The data is made available at the Manchester Computing
|
|
Centre. Other institutions provided further contributions. NetEc
|
|
welcomes the participation of all working paper producers.
|
|
|
|
WoPEc contains a collection of working papers, which can be
|
|
retrieved electronically. All are Unix compressed PostScript
|
|
files.
|
|
|
|
Finally, the FTP site has the Backus and Kohoe data from
|
|
the AER, '92 (see the pub/NetEc/DatEc directory). More data
|
|
could be kept here; if you have any suggestions, please email
|
|
netec@uts.mcc.ac.uk.
|
|
|
|
TELNET netec.mcc.ac.uk (login as "netec" and change to
|
|
"Economics")
|
|
GOPHER (direct): uts.mcc.ac.uk:/Economics
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): Europe/United Kingdom/University of
|
|
Manchester/Economics/NetEc
|
|
FTP: netec.mcc.ac.uk
|
|
INFORMATION: netec@uts.mcc.ac.uk
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. Working Paper Archive (econ-wp)
|
|
|
|
This electronic archive of working papers in economics is
|
|
set up by the Economics Department of Washington University
|
|
in St. Louis. It uses software developed at Los Alamos
|
|
National Laboratory, where literally thousands of working
|
|
papers in physics are stored. This archive is best accessed
|
|
through gopher, although email and FTP access is possible as
|
|
well. Papers are grouped in 21 subject areas with abstracts
|
|
and different methods of searching for papers are available.
|
|
Papers may be submitted in any format via e-mail and binary
|
|
files can be submitted via FTP. Currently, there are relatively
|
|
few papers in the archive, but its ease of use should encourage
|
|
more entries. If you have a properly configured WWW client (such
|
|
as Mosaic) or even a properly configured gopher (such as Hgopher
|
|
for Windows), most of the papers can be viewed online (as can other
|
|
PostScript papers). The WWW server also has entries for other
|
|
PostScript papers which are available on the Net.
|
|
|
|
The parent gopher, the gopher of the Economics Department of
|
|
Washington University at St. Louis, contains a wealth of
|
|
interesting material. It is the next to last entry on econ-wp's
|
|
menu.
|
|
|
|
TELNET: econwpa.wustl.edu (login as "gopher")
|
|
GOPHER (direct): econwpa.wustl.edu
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Missouri/Washington University -
|
|
St. Louis/Washington University in
|
|
St. Louis Departmental Gopher Servers
|
|
/Economics Department/Economics
|
|
Working Paper Archive
|
|
WWW: http://econwpa.wustl.edu/Welcome.html
|
|
EMAIL: econ-wp@econwpa.wustl.edu
|
|
Directions: in the subject of the letter,
|
|
"help" will obtain introductory information
|
|
|
|
|
|
C. Feminist Economists Discussion Group Archive
|
|
|
|
The mailing list of this group, described below, has an
|
|
archive of working papers, bibliographies and old
|
|
discussions. It is reached only via email. For an index of
|
|
material, send email to the listed site with "index
|
|
femecon-l" in the body of the letter, while "get femecon-l
|
|
guide", sent the same way, will list the services
|
|
available. Finally, "help" will cause a general guide to
|
|
using listserv to be sent to you.
|
|
|
|
EMAIL: listserv@bucknell.edu
|
|
|
|
|
|
6. GOPHERS
|
|
|
|
A. Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University
|
|
|
|
This gopher contains a variety of material that might be
|
|
useful for teaching, such as summaries of the 1990 Census,
|
|
the proposed U.S. budget for 1994, and the CIA World
|
|
Factbook. Further, it contains an extensive of connections to
|
|
data sources and in particular to all other known economics
|
|
gophers. As a result, it is THE gopher one should search first.
|
|
It also includes a list of economists and their email addresses.
|
|
Finally, it has a very extensive collection of TeX information.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): niord.shsu.edu:/Economics
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Texas/Sam Houston State
|
|
University/Economics
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. Computational Economics Gopher
|
|
|
|
This gopher is affiliated with the journal Computational
|
|
Economics. It contains connections to other economics
|
|
gophers, information on a few books and some working
|
|
papers. It also contains information on submitting papers
|
|
electronically to the journal.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): gopher.sara.nl:/Computational Economics
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): Europe/Netherlands/SARA/
|
|
Computational Economics
|
|
|
|
|
|
C. ClioNet
|
|
|
|
Sponsored by the Cliometric Society, this gopher contains
|
|
information of interest to economic historians. It features an
|
|
electronic directory of the memberships of a variety of business
|
|
and economic history organizations. It also contains a
|
|
collection of more than 50 course syllabi from economic history
|
|
courses, abstracts from Cliometric sessions at ASSA meetings, a
|
|
list of papers presented at Cliometrics Conferences (1961-1993),
|
|
and a growing set of historical data series. Early in 1993, the
|
|
Society plans to create an expanded server with multiple topical
|
|
listservs, "real time" conferences and expanded data sets. This
|
|
server will offer special concentration on issues related to the
|
|
historical economic impact on global change. (Sam Williamson,
|
|
who runs ClioNet, kindly provided this description.)
|
|
|
|
TELNET: clionet.cas.muohio.edu (login as "gopher")
|
|
GOPHER (direct): clionet.cas.muohio.edu
|
|
INFORMATION: Sam Williamson
|
|
(shwillia@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu)
|
|
|
|
D. National Bureau of Economic Research Gopher
|
|
|
|
Currently, this gopher contains several things of
|
|
interest: the Penn World Trade Tables (versions 5 and
|
|
5.5), the Survey of Consumer Finance (which will fit on
|
|
three floppies), trade and immigration data from Abowd and
|
|
Freeman, and a list of NBER working papers and reprints
|
|
(which must first be uudecoded then uncompressed; the
|
|
ultimate size is some 2.5 megabytes). The later is also
|
|
available at BibEc. Note that not all data is available
|
|
with both the ftp and gopher methods; in particular, of
|
|
the data, only the Penn World Trade Tables are available
|
|
on the Gopher site.
|
|
|
|
One can only hope that someday NBER working papers will be
|
|
available here or at another working paper archive.
|
|
|
|
TELNET: nber.harvard.edu (login as "gopher")
|
|
GOPHER (direct): nber.harvard.edu
|
|
FTP: nber.harvard.edu:/pub/nber
|
|
|
|
|
|
E. Academe This Week
|
|
|
|
This electronic version of the Chronicle of Higher
|
|
Education is available via gopher. Perhaps the most useful
|
|
item is the full listings of all job advertisements from
|
|
the Chronicle, but it also summarizes the articles in the
|
|
print version, and contains various miscellaneous items.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): chronicle.merit.edu
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/General (also directly on more
|
|
than 60 university gophers)
|
|
|
|
|
|
F. Washington Univ. at St. Louis Econ. Dept.
|
|
|
|
This gopher is closely tied to the Working Paper Archive
|
|
at Washington Univ. It contains a number of links to other
|
|
useful gophers, both economic and of interest to economists,
|
|
such as the Federal Register, archives of mailing lists on
|
|
SAS and statistics, access to the UIC Stat archives (described
|
|
below) and many Internet resources.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): wuecon.wustl.edu port 671
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Missouri/Washington University -
|
|
St. Louis/Washington University in
|
|
St. Louis Departmental Gopher Servers
|
|
/Economics Department/Economics
|
|
|
|
|
|
G. RiceInfo
|
|
|
|
This gopher is part of a project to link together gopher materials
|
|
in a number of subject areas. One area of interest to economists
|
|
is a section titled "Economics and Business". While many other
|
|
economic gophers list roughly the same information, this may be
|
|
of interest. Note that this same gopher has substantial Census
|
|
information listed in another area (and described above).
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): riceinfo.rice.edu:/Information
|
|
by Subject Area/Economics and Business
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Texas/RiceInfo
|
|
|
|
|
|
H. University of Michigan Economics Department
|
|
|
|
This site is run by Hal Varian and Jeff MacKie-Mason and
|
|
it contains a variety of information, such as addresses of
|
|
economists (including email ones), some bibliographies,
|
|
data (particularly Dow-Jones and the U.S. Dept. of
|
|
Agriculture), errata to some Varian books and working
|
|
papers on the economics of the Internet.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Michigan/University of Michigan
|
|
Libraries/Other Gophers/University
|
|
of Michigan/Economics Department
|
|
WWW: http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu/EconInternet.html
|
|
|
|
|
|
I. Communications for a Sustainable Future
|
|
|
|
This gopher contains two directories that might be of
|
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interest: Post-Keynesian Thought and Economic Forum.
|
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The former contains material of interest to researchers
|
|
in that field and the later is more general, but in the
|
|
general theme of this gopher. It contains a directory
|
|
titled "Dollars-and-Sense", but it is currently empty.
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|
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GOPHER (direct): csf.colorado.edu
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GOPHER (indirect): USA/Colorado/Communications for a
|
|
Sustainable Future
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|
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J. SunSITE
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|
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This site (sponsored in part by Sun Microsystems) contains
|
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current government documents that might be useful for policy
|
|
analysis. Examples include information on NAFTA, the
|
|
Administration's health care plan, White House Press Releases,
|
|
reinventing government, and the proposed federal budget. Most
|
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of this material will be found in "Sunsite Archives" and others
|
|
in "US and World Politics", which is in "Sunsite Archives".
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|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): sunsite.oit.unc.edu
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|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/North Carolina/University of North
|
|
Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ogphre/SUNsite
|
|
archives)
|
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TELNET: sunsite.oit.unc.edu (login as "gopher"; you may need
|
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to supply your terminal type)
|
|
|
|
K. RISKNet
|
|
|
|
This gopher is associated with the RISKNet mailing list, described
|
|
below. They cover risk and insurance issues. This gopher has
|
|
calls for papers, databases, teaching resources, and teaching
|
|
material for these fields. There is also an FTP site with a more
|
|
limited amount of information.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): gopherhost.cc.utexas.edu port 3004
|
|
/Department Information/Finance/RISKNet
|
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|
|
|
|
L. Florida State College of Business
|
|
|
|
This gopher contains a wealth of information on their programs.
|
|
It is a nice example of what a college can do with a gopher.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER(direct): cob.fsu.edu port 4070
|
|
GOPHER(indirect): USA/Florida/Florida State University/Other
|
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Information Systems at Florida State University/
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|
College of Business
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7. UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH LIBRARY CARD CATALOGS
|
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|
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A. Research Libraries in General
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|
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The most current list of research libraries accessible over the
|
|
Internet is maintained by Billy Barron (who started it),
|
|
Marie-Christine Mahe, Lou Rosenfeld and Barry Bouwsma. It lists
|
|
roughly 680 such libraries.
|
|
|
|
Note that many libraries can also be reached via gopher (typically
|
|
under a title like "Libraries"). The following files describe how
|
|
the libraries can be reached via telnet and the type of indexing
|
|
software they use.
|
|
|
|
Via the gopher listed below, one can directly connect to the
|
|
libraries listed in the FTP files.
|
|
|
|
FTP: ftp.utdallas.edu:/pub/staff/billy/libguide (there are many
|
|
files of interest in this directory)
|
|
GOPHER (direct): gopher.utdallas.edu:/Library On-Line Catalogs
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Texas/University of Texas - Dallas
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. Library of Congress
|
|
|
|
The Library of Congress has set up a gopher that includes
|
|
a wealth of information, which includes their card
|
|
catalog. They also offer an extensive set of links to
|
|
other resources (the economics oriented ones are generally
|
|
described elsewhere here) and substantial information on
|
|
the U.S. Government, including Congress. It _appears_ one
|
|
can use their photocopy service long distance.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): marvel.loc.gov
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Washington DC/Library of Congress
|
|
TELNET: marvel.loc.gov (login as "gopher")
|
|
|
|
|
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C. North Carolina State University's "Library Without Walls"
|
|
|
|
This library is a forerunner of libraries of the future.
|
|
It contains a "Reference Desk" which has dictionaries,
|
|
directories, indices, and subject guides to literature
|
|
and the Internet. It also has "Study Carrels" which are
|
|
devoted to different subject areas.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER (direct): dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/NCSU's "Library Without Walls"
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/North Carolina/North Carolina State
|
|
University Library gopher/NCSU's
|
|
"Library Without Walls"
|
|
|
|
|
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8. PROGRAM LIBRARIES
|
|
|
|
A. Netlib
|
|
|
|
Netlib is a numerical software library with approximately 50
|
|
megabytes of code. The routines, mostly in Fortran, are
|
|
generally of high quality (many were developed at U.S.
|
|
national labs or by professional numerical analysts). Packages
|
|
include Linpack, Eispack, and their new successor, Lapack.
|
|
|
|
Netlib is available via e-mail and FTP and even on some
|
|
economics gophers. For introductory material on Netlib,
|
|
use the e-mail method by writing "send index" in the body
|
|
of your message addressed to one of the sites listed
|
|
below. You will receive an introduction to Netlib and its
|
|
libraries and how to obtain routines from them.
|
|
|
|
At least the netlib2 sites contain some uncompressed files.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER: wuecon.wustl.edu (described above)
|
|
niord.shsu.edu:/ftp Gateways to Economics Information
|
|
(described above)
|
|
netlib2.cs.utk.edu
|
|
|
|
FTP:
|
|
netlib2.cs.utk.edu (U.S.)
|
|
netlib.att.com:/netlib (U.S.)
|
|
unix.hensa.ac.uk:/pub/netlib (Europe)
|
|
draci.cs.uow.edu.au:/netlib (Pacific)
|
|
|
|
E-MAIL:
|
|
netlib@ornl.gov (U.S.)
|
|
netlib@research.att.com (U.S.)
|
|
netlib@unix.hensa.ac.uk (Europe)
|
|
netlib@nac.no (Europe)
|
|
netlib@draci.cs.uow.edu.au (Pacific)
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. Statlib
|
|
|
|
Statlib is a system similar to Netlib (in fact, it uses
|
|
roughly the same software) for statistical software. Major
|
|
holding include algorithms from Applied Statistics,
|
|
numerous classic datasets (although few are economic),
|
|
software for Minitab and S, and a variety of other
|
|
software under a heading labeled "general."
|
|
|
|
For the email interface, send the phrase "send index" in
|
|
the body of your message.
|
|
|
|
E-MAIL: statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu
|
|
GOPHER (direct): lib.stat.cmu.edu
|
|
GOPHER (indirect): USA/Pennsylvania/Statlib (also listed
|
|
directly on some gophers)
|
|
FTP: lib.stat.cmu.edu
|
|
|
|
|
|
C. University of Illinois at Chicago Statistical Library
|
|
(UICSTAT)
|
|
|
|
This statistics library contains a variety of software
|
|
(much of it in SAS), but it lacks an up to date index,
|
|
making searching it a bit difficult. However, an index
|
|
can be reached at the Washington Univ. Economics Gopher
|
|
(described above) under the heading "UIC Stat Archive"
|
|
and files can be transferred from there as well.
|
|
|
|
FTP: uicvm.cc.uic.edu:/uicvm
|
|
Directions: must do a "cd" to uicmv
|
|
before a directory listing is shown
|
|
GOPHER: via Washington Univ. at St. Louis Econ. Dept.
|
|
(described above)
|
|
INFORMATION: Barry Grau (u42054@uicvm.cc.uic.edu)
|
|
|
|
|
|
9. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
|
|
|
|
A. Iowa Electronic Markets
|
|
|
|
This service is run by the Accounting and Economics
|
|
Departments of the University of Iowa. It currently
|
|
consists of three electronic exchanges: the Iowa Earnings
|
|
Market (which trades contracts on the EPS of five
|
|
corporations), the Iowa Economic Indicators Market (which
|
|
trades contracts on the CPI and the US$/Mexican peso
|
|
exchange rate). In the past, these departments ran the well
|
|
known 1992 Iowa Political Stock Market, which traded contracts
|
|
based on the outcome of the 1992 Presidential Election. The
|
|
liquidation value of all contracts is determined by the
|
|
value of the underlying fundamental on a set date.
|
|
|
|
This excellent teaching tool is open only to university
|
|
and college staff, faculty and students. While the
|
|
purpose is education and research, trades require actual
|
|
money (from $5 to $500 may be invested). The developers
|
|
feel that by using real money for trades, there is an
|
|
increased motivation to learn about the underlying
|
|
fundamentals. There are no commissions or fees and
|
|
trading is continuous.
|
|
|
|
FTP: umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu:/pub/iem/trman.txt (Trader's Manual)
|
|
" " /q&a.txt (Short Introduction)
|
|
EMAIL: iem@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu
|
|
Directions: mail addressed here will
|
|
send the Trader's Manual to you.
|
|
|
|
|
|
10.USENET NEWSGROUPS
|
|
|
|
Usenet is a decentralized discussion system running on
|
|
tens of thousands of cooperating computers around the world
|
|
(much of the traffic runs over the Internet). It covers
|
|
almost 2,000 subjects in areas called newsgroups. The
|
|
estimated number of readers ranges in the low millions and
|
|
traffic each day is approaching 50 megabytes. Some mailing
|
|
lists "mirror" Usenet newsgroups and vice-versa.
|
|
|
|
In many ways, Usenet has it own culture and the new user is
|
|
wise to read carefully before posting messages. The
|
|
newsgroups news.announce.newusers and
|
|
news.newusers.questions are for those new to Usenet. Since
|
|
it runs on a variety of systems, consult your local site for
|
|
information on how to access it.
|
|
|
|
Newsgroup Topic
|
|
comp.soft-sys.spss SPSS
|
|
comp.soft-sys.shazam Shazam
|
|
comp.soft-sys.sas SAS
|
|
comp.infosystems.announce Internet Information System Announcements
|
|
sci.stat.edu Statistics and Education
|
|
sci.stat.math Statistics and Math
|
|
sci.stat.consult Statistics and Consulting
|
|
sci.math.stat Statistics Discussion
|
|
sci.op-research Operations Research
|
|
sci.econ.research Research in Economics (Moderated)
|
|
All past discussions are indexed and
|
|
organized into topic areas by the moderator,
|
|
Forrest Smith. They are archived at (FTP)
|
|
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/academic/economics/
|
|
sci.econ.research
|
|
sci.econ Discussions in Economics
|
|
(often dominated by current
|
|
political economy questions;
|
|
a good place for economic
|
|
education if you're patient)
|
|
|
|
|
|
11.MAILING LISTS
|
|
|
|
A. Introduction
|
|
|
|
Mailing lists work as follows. Software on a computer run by
|
|
the organizer (or moderator) of the list sends mail to all
|
|
members of the list when it receives mail. For obvious
|
|
reasons, the term mail exploder is sometimes used for such
|
|
software. On some lists, the moderator will approve mail to
|
|
be sent to all list members. Thus, to send mail to all
|
|
members, you need only write to one address: the list
|
|
address.
|
|
|
|
When using a mailing list, please follow "netiquette:"
|
|
- Use a meaningful subject line. A subject of "help",
|
|
particularly when received by those on more than one
|
|
list, is not likely to elicit much of a response.
|
|
- If you're responding to a previous post, quote accordingly,
|
|
but judiciously. This helps put your comments in context,
|
|
yet avoids messages that are too long.
|
|
- Enclose a short note (or "signature") at the bottom with at
|
|
least your email address. Some mailing systems mangle the
|
|
information in the header with your address.
|
|
- If you have a response, consider responding directly via
|
|
email if you think no one on the list will be interested.
|
|
- Watch your temper. Email sometimes makes tempers flare. If
|
|
you think you should wait or tone down your note, you most
|
|
likely should.
|
|
- Don't type in all capital letters.
|
|
|
|
While not part of netiquette, the value of mailing lists
|
|
should be approached like other many other sources of
|
|
information, such as a newspaper or a journal. Much of the
|
|
material may not be of interest, but occasionally something
|
|
very useful may cross your path.
|
|
|
|
###################################################################
|
|
# Note that in ALL cases, you subscribe and unsubscribe from a #
|
|
# list NOT by sending e-mail to the list itself (which means it #
|
|
# goes to ALL the members of the list), but to some special #
|
|
# address that deals with subscriptions. Sending mail to the #
|
|
# list itself marks you as a novice who hasn't taken time to #
|
|
# carefully read directions. It also irritates list members #
|
|
# (numbering into the hundreds) who receive useless mail. One #
|
|
# hint: when subscribing to a list, you'll receive information #
|
|
# on how to unsubscribe. Keep it and use it. #
|
|
###################################################################
|
|
|
|
The following is a list of e-mail discussion groups. I have
|
|
organized the following mailing lists around the type of
|
|
software (listserv, majordomo, mailserv, mailbase Internet-style
|
|
and other) used to run them so that directions can be
|
|
put in one place.
|
|
|
|
In general, I know little about these lists other than the
|
|
fact that they exist (in fact, this list is basically an
|
|
edited version of the e-mail I received in acknowledgment
|
|
when I subscribed to the lists). Traffic varies; in fact,
|
|
on some, it is very close to zero and on others, it varies
|
|
substantially. Where I do know something more, I've added
|
|
it beneath the name of the list and its address.
|
|
|
|
B. Single Topic Mailing Lists
|
|
|
|
LISTSERV
|
|
|
|
To subscribe to a list run by listserv, send an e-mail
|
|
message to LISTSERV@wherever, _NOT_ to the list itself. If
|
|
you send mail to the list itself, it will be sent in turn to
|
|
all members of the list. This, obviously, should be reserved
|
|
for messages you want all members of the list to read and
|
|
potentially respond to.
|
|
|
|
For example, to subscribe to the list CARECON, you'd send
|
|
e-mail to LISTSERV@YORKVM1.BITNET (or LISTSERV@VM1.YORKU.CA).
|
|
|
|
In the body of your e-mail message, you should write the one
|
|
line message:
|
|
subscribe CARECON your name
|
|
Note that your name is typically your first and last name.
|
|
|
|
To cancel a subscription, use signoff list where list is the
|
|
name of the list. Again, e-mail should be sent to listserv
|
|
at the site that houses the list. Finally, help on these and
|
|
other commands can be obtained by sending a one line message
|
|
with "help" in it.
|
|
|
|
Messages to the list itself should be sent to
|
|
CARECON@YORKVM1.BITNET, for example. Any such message will
|
|
be sent to all members of the list.
|
|
|
|
List of the Society of Computational Economics
|
|
CSEMLIST@HASARA11.BITNET
|
|
Has a number of announcements of meetings and some
|
|
calls for papers.
|
|
|
|
List of the Faculty of Economics, University of Amsterdam, NL.
|
|
CORRYFEE@HASARA11.BITNET
|
|
|
|
Caribbean Economy
|
|
CARECON@YORKVM1.BITNET (or @VM1.YORKU.CA)
|
|
|
|
Research in Economic Education
|
|
ECONED-L@UTDALLAS.BITNET (or @VM.UTDALLAS.EDU)
|
|
|
|
A discussion of teaching and research in economic history
|
|
ECONHIST@MIAMIU.BITNET (or @MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU)
|
|
|
|
Discussao sobre economia brasileira
|
|
ECONOM-L@BRUFSC.BITNET
|
|
|
|
The Electronic Journal of Finance
|
|
FINANCE@TEMPLEVM.BITNET (or @VM.TEMPLE.EDU)
|
|
|
|
Economic Nonlinear Dynamics List
|
|
NONLIN-L@NIHLIST.BITNET (or @LIST.NIH.GOV)
|
|
|
|
Workshop on Information Systems Economics
|
|
WISE@UICVM.BITNET (or @UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU)
|
|
|
|
Eastern Europe Business Network
|
|
E-EUROPE@PUCC.BITNET (or @PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU)
|
|
|
|
Post-Keynesian Thought
|
|
pkt@csf.colorado.edu.
|
|
|
|
International Trade
|
|
trade@csf.colorado.edu.
|
|
|
|
Community and Rural Economic Development Interests
|
|
RURALDEV@KSUVM.BITNET (or @KSUVM.KSU.EDU)
|
|
|
|
Economic Problems in Less Developed Countries
|
|
ECONOMY@UOTTAWA.BITNET (or ECONOMY@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA)
|
|
|
|
Political Economy
|
|
Pol-Econ@SHSU.BITNET (or @SHSU.edu)
|
|
Postings from Usenet's moderated newsgroup sci.econ.research
|
|
are "gatewayed" to this group, and postings from Pol-Econ are
|
|
sent to the sci.econ.research moderator for possible inclusion
|
|
in that group. Discussions range over all of economics. Since the
|
|
traffic is fairly heavy, you can choose to have all messages sent
|
|
in one message once a day in a digest. Rather than subscribing to
|
|
Pol-Econ, subscribe to Pol-Econ-Digest. If you'd like to switch
|
|
from Pol-Econ to Pol-Econ-Digest, first use the command to unsubscribe
|
|
from Pol-Econ:
|
|
signoff Pol-Econ
|
|
|
|
Labor Economics
|
|
LABOR@SHSU.BITNET (or @SHSU.edu)
|
|
|
|
Gophers devoted on Economics
|
|
Egopher@SHSU.BITNET (or@SHSU.edu)
|
|
|
|
Business Libraries Discussion List
|
|
BUSLIB-L@IDBSU.BITNET
|
|
Traffic is said to be heavy.
|
|
|
|
Regional Science Information Exchange
|
|
REGSC-L@WVNVM.BITNET
|
|
|
|
Feminist Economics Discussion List
|
|
femecon-l@bucknell.edu.
|
|
|
|
SAS Discussion
|
|
SAS-L@UGA.BITNET (or @UGA.CC.UGA.EDU)
|
|
A high volume list that would appear
|
|
to be quite useful to SAS users.
|
|
|
|
SAS Public Access Consortium (deals with Census data)
|
|
SASPAC-L@UMSLVMA.BITNET (or @UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU)
|
|
|
|
PEN-L (Progressive Economists Network)
|
|
pen-l@bobby.ecst.csuchico.edu
|
|
|
|
MEMSNET (Mineral Economics and Mgmt Society)
|
|
LISTSERV@UABDPO.BITNET (or @UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU)
|
|
|
|
Net-Happenings
|
|
net-happenings@is.internic.net
|
|
While not related to economics, this list is a good
|
|
description to what is happening on the Internet. I
|
|
came across some items on this list here.
|
|
|
|
MAJORDOMO
|
|
|
|
Majordomo is another program that organizes mailing lists.
|
|
Commands for subscribing and unsubscribing are similar to
|
|
those used with a listserv except that the name is not given
|
|
at the end of the subscription line. Further, rather than sending
|
|
e-mail to listserv at the site that houses the list, it
|
|
should be sent to majordomo@csn.org.
|
|
|
|
Local Economic Development
|
|
econ-dev@csn.org
|
|
A rather philosophical list with fairly heavy traffic.
|
|
|
|
Texts prepared by the Brazilian Institute of Social
|
|
and Economic Analyses
|
|
ibase-texts-l@ibase.br
|
|
|
|
RISKNet - Discussion of Risk and Insurance issues.
|
|
RISKnet@bongo.cc.utexas.edu
|
|
|
|
MAILSERV
|
|
|
|
When using a mailserv, requests for a subscription or canceling a
|
|
subscription should be sent to mailserv@wherever. To subscribe, write
|
|
subscribe list
|
|
in the body of your note where list is the name of the list
|
|
you wish to subscribe to. To cancel a subscription, use
|
|
unsubscribe list
|
|
|
|
International Political Economy
|
|
ipe@csf.colorado.edu
|
|
|
|
MAILBASE
|
|
|
|
When using a mailbase, send your e-mail to mailbase@wherever and use
|
|
join list your name
|
|
in the body of the text to join a list, and use
|
|
leave list
|
|
to cancel a subscription.
|
|
|
|
CTI Centre for Computing in Economics list for academic economists
|
|
cti-econ@mailbase.ac.uk
|
|
|
|
Economic History E-mail Conference
|
|
history-econ@mailbase.ac.uk
|
|
This list publishes the interesting Economic History Newsletter
|
|
that covers a variety of topics.
|
|
|
|
Experimental Economics
|
|
economics-experimental@mailbase.ac.uk
|
|
|
|
Discussion on the transition in Eastern Europe & former Soviet Union.
|
|
east-west-research@mailbase.ac.uk
|
|
|
|
Discussion of issues related to law and economics.
|
|
law-economics@mailbase.ac.uk
|
|
|
|
Discussion on the economics and management of education.
|
|
educ-econ@mailbase.ac.uk
|
|
|
|
Discussion for those who use quantitative techniques in health econ.
|
|
health-econometrics@mailbase.ac.uk
|
|
|
|
INTERNET STYLE
|
|
|
|
With Internet style lists, one sends requests to sign up and
|
|
leave a list to the list maintainer. Simply add the suffix
|
|
"-request" to the list name and e-mail it.
|
|
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Teaching of Economics (not research in economic education)
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tch-econ@vax1.elon.edu
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Communications Privatization
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com-priv@psi.com
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This list discusses issues concerning the privatization of
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the Internet. This is an area in which economists might have
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a substantial impact.
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OTHER
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This category includes all other possible types of mailing
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lists. Directions are listed individually.
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Land and Resource Economics Electronic Conference (res-econ)
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res-econ@unixg.ubc.ca
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To subscribe, mail to:
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res-econ-request@unixg.ubc.ca
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with the subject as
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subscribe to res-econ
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and in the body of your letter, type your name.
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C. Financial Economists Network (FEN)
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Currently, this is a group of 25 mailing lists ("channels")
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with more than 1800 subscribers from academia, government and
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industry. All lists are devoted to some form financial economics.
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One first registers with either Wayne Marr of Clemson University
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(marrm@ clemson.clemson.edu) or John Trimble of Washington State
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University (trimble@vancouver.wsu.edu). Along with Michael Jensen,
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they founded FEN.
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Besides a main list of AFA-FIN, lists are:
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AFA-ACCT (Accounting and Finance) AFA-INT (International Finance)
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AFA-AGE (Gerontology Finance) AFA-INV (Investments)
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AFA-AGRI (Agricultural Finance) AFA-LE (Law & Econ.)
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AFA-BANK (Banking) AFA-MATH (Mathematical Finance)
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AFA-CORP (Corporate Finance) AFA-PUB (Public Finance)
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AFA-DER (Derivatives) AFA-REAL (Real Estate)
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AFA-ECMT (Econometrics and Finance) AFA-S-IV (Small Investor)
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AFA-EDU (Education Finance) AFA-SBUS (Small Business Finance)
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AFA-HEAL (Health Finance) AFA-WA-R (Real Estate in WA state)
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AFA-INS (Insurance) AFA-MKTM (Market Microstructure)
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AFA-PERS (Personal Finance) AFA-VCAP (Venture Capital)
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AFA-INST (Teaching/Instruction) AFA-EMKT (Emerging Markets)
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AFA-SOFT (Financial Software)
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12.DATA RELATED TO THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION
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A. Graduate Programs
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Forrest Smith, the moderator of the Usenet newsgroup
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sci.econ.research, has compiled information on some graduate
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programs in economics. The archive site for this group is
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mentioned below, and this information can be found in the "FAQ"
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directory with the names "grad.programs.descriptive" and
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"grad.progs.contents".
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FTP:sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/academic/economics/sci.econ.research
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13. WORD PROCESSING
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A. TeX References
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Since I am not knowledgeable about TeX, let me cite the two
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references given in the TeX FAQ:
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The TeXbook, Donald Knuth, Addison Wesley, 1984,
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ISBN 0-201-13447-0, paperback 0-201-13448-9
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LaTeX, a Document Preparation System, Leslie Lamport,
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Addison Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-15790-X
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B. TeX Macros for Economics and TeX Sources
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Since I am not a TeX user, let me defer to George Greenwade
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<bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>, who is. In fact, he is an expert. This
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section was written by George and I simply copied it from his
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posting to the Usenet newsgroup sci.econ.research as archived
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by Forrest Smith.
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The TeX macros written by Professor Varian, known as
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"VerTeX" (for Visualize Economic Reports in TeX; release
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1.0 of August, 1987) are available for ftp retrieval from
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the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) hosts:
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hostname directory
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--------------------------------------------------------------
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ftp.SHSU.edu /tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/vertex/
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ftp.TeX.ac.UK /tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/vertex/
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ftp.Uni-Stuttgart.DE /tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/vertex/
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The first two sites also support Gopher access. SHSU's
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CTAN is also linked into Niord's Gopher in its Economics
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area, as well as the economics or TeX areas on a number of
|
|
other gophers worldwide.
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Finally, the command:
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SENDME VERTEX
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in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.edu will
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retrieve the set of 19 files via e-mail.
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I have to stress that these are NOT LaTeX styles; they are
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TeX macros. VerTeX's syntax differs somewhat from the more
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standard LaTeX-type commands; however, the syntax used in
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VerTeX is consistent throughout VerTeX (and, as an
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occasional user, I fell comfortable in saying they are
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relatively easy to follow, understand, and use). The file
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set is pretty well documented and demonstrated. Varian has
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very roughly hinted that he might have an interest at some
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later date in rewriting these to use LaTeX and BibTeX
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(probably after the release of LaTeX3 -- since I am quite
|
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involved in that project, I feel safe in telling you not to
|
|
hold your breath on LaTeX3; I'll be surprised if it's out
|
|
before 1996).
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The present Visualize Economic Reports in TeX styles include:
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jpe.sty --- Journal of Polemical Economy
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jep.sty --- Journal of Economic Perspectives
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|
jet.sty --- Journal of Economic Theorems
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|
aer.sty --- Armenian Economic Review
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ecnmet.sty --- Economagica
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restud.sty --- Review for Economic Students
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qje.sty --- Quartered Journal of Economics
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I'll assume that you can figure out which of these look
|
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like what "real" journals. When you use one of these
|
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styles, VerTeX will automatically adjust the style of the
|
|
document and the style of the references to be more-or-less
|
|
consistent with the journal style. Some fine tuning may be
|
|
needed, but the output generally looks pretty good.
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|
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As the US coordinator of the CTAN (a collection now in
|
|
excess of a gigabyte), if you have any TeX-related files
|
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which you would like to have included, please contact me.
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14. PROGRAMS FOR ECONOMISTS ON THE INTERNET
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A. BCI Data Manager
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|
For this section, let me quote from a post by the author
|
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(Gary F. Langer), with just a bit of editing:
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BCI Data Manager is a Windows 3.1 program that lets you manage
|
|
the economic time series contained in the U.S. Commerce
|
|
Department's Business Cycle Indicators (BCI) and Current
|
|
Business Statistics (BSDC) database files. Together, these
|
|
data files, updated weekly and monthly, contain current and
|
|
historic data on over 2000 data series. BCI files contain all
|
|
of the time series included in the "yellow pages" of the Survey
|
|
of Current Business, going back to 1945, and always contain the
|
|
very latest revisions. Current Business Statistics files
|
|
contain all the economic time series found in the "blue pages"
|
|
of the Survey of Current Business, going back four years. These
|
|
files are available on the Commerce Department's Economics
|
|
Bulletin Board (EBB) and on a subscription basis. You can
|
|
access the EBB via telnet through ebb.stat-usa.gov, or via
|
|
modem at (202)482-3870. BCI and BSDC files can also be obtained
|
|
through ftp from the U. of Michigan:
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|
|
una.hh.lib.umich.edu:/bin.
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|
|
|
The main purpose of BCI Data Manager is to extract data from
|
|
these data files and save it in a useful format. You can
|
|
choose to save extracted data as an ASCII file (CSV format), as
|
|
a spreadsheet file (WK1 format), or to the Windows clipboard.
|
|
(You can also interactively view the data on-line if you
|
|
like). Range names are saved in the WK1 files to facilitate
|
|
importing the data into word- processing documents and external
|
|
databases. Graphs of each series extracted can also be saved in
|
|
the WK1 file containing the data, at the option of the user.
|
|
|
|
The program also enables you to keep historic database files
|
|
up-to-date with an automated update facility. The Commerce
|
|
Department issues weekly and monthly updates of the last two
|
|
and four years of data for all of its BCI data series, but
|
|
unless this data can be integrated into the historic database
|
|
files that go back to 1945, it is of limited usefulness. By
|
|
essentially clicking on files to be updated and clicking on the
|
|
files containing the updated data, the program will
|
|
automatically add the updated and revised data to existing
|
|
historic data files.
|
|
|
|
Another feature of the program is its ability to display graphs
|
|
of all of the series contained in the database with a single
|
|
click of the mouse. With a single tap of the up or down arrow
|
|
keys you can scroll through graphs of all of the series on your
|
|
computer as if you were turning through the pages of a book.
|
|
With another mouse click you can switch the display from that
|
|
of quarterly or monthly data to that of annual data. I've
|
|
found that this feature is excellent for in-class and seminar
|
|
slide (or screen) show presentations.
|
|
|
|
If you use the program and like it, send me e-mail and I will
|
|
send you information about later versions of it (I tinker with
|
|
it endlessly). (Also send e-mail if you would like me to send
|
|
you the program on a floppy diskette via surface mail.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
FTP: netec.mcc.ac.uk:/pub/NetEc/SoftEc/BCI_Manager (the program
|
|
can be obtained from either the zipped (using PKZIP) or
|
|
unzipped directories (be sure to get all files))
|
|
INFORMATION: Gary F. Langer (gary.langer@syslink.mcs.com)
|
|
|
|
|
|
15. USEFUL BOOKS, PROGRAMS, AND RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET
|
|
|
|
A. Books
|
|
|
|
I have taken a fairly careful look at the 10 different
|
|
books I've seen on the Internet at national bookstores.
|
|
Let me recommend:
|
|
|
|
Ed Krol. The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog.
|
|
O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, California. 1992.
|
|
ISBN 1-56592-025-2.
|
|
|
|
Paul Gilster. The Internet Navigator.
|
|
John Wiley and Sons, New York. 1993.
|
|
ISBN 0-471-59782-1.
|
|
|
|
Harley Hahn and Rick Stout. The Internet Complete Reference.
|
|
Osborne McGraw-Hill, New York. 1994.
|
|
ISBN 0-07-881980-6.
|
|
|
|
Daniel P. Dern. The Internet Guide for New Users.
|
|
McGraw Hill, New York. 1994.
|
|
ISBN 0-07-016511-4.
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. On-Line Guide
|
|
|
|
For a comprehensive on-line guide, the Electronic Frontier
|
|
Foundation's "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet," written
|
|
by Adam Gaffin, is excellent. While not as detailed as the
|
|
above books, it is a very useful guide to the Internet. Plus,
|
|
it is free. The listing below identifies an ASCII (or text)
|
|
version of the second edition; many other formats are available
|
|
in the Big_Dummy_other_versions directory, (but not yet of the
|
|
second edition).
|
|
|
|
FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/Net_info/bigdummy.txt
|
|
|
|
|
|
C. Software
|
|
|
|
Gopher client software
|
|
|
|
Gopher is a very popular tool on the Internet and is much
|
|
more efficient than accessing gopher sites with telnet.
|
|
Further, file transfer is much easier with client software.
|
|
Packages for many different hosts can be found here.
|
|
|
|
FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher.
|
|
|
|
|
|
uuencode/uudecode
|
|
|
|
This pair of programs are very useful when used in conjunction
|
|
with email. Uuencode takes a binary file (such as a word
|
|
processing file or a program) and converts it to text so that
|
|
it can be emailed. Uudecode than converts it back to binary.
|
|
Using this pair of programs, researchers can collaborate by
|
|
emailing binary data or word processing files. If one host
|
|
is an IBM mainframe, be sure to use the -x option.
|
|
|
|
FTP: ftp.shsu.edu:/tex-archives/archive-tools/uue
|
|
GOPHER: Sam Houston State Economics (described above):
|
|
/Network Archive Tools/uue
|
|
|
|
|
|
gzip:
|
|
This new program can uncompress many files (note that this
|
|
is typically denoted by a .Z suffix) found on the Internet.
|
|
More information on this topic can be found below in the
|
|
document by David Lemson.
|
|
|
|
FTP: ftp.shsu.edu:/tex-archive/tools/info-zip
|
|
GOPHER: Sam Houston State Economics (described above):
|
|
/Network Archive Tools/gzip
|
|
|
|
|
|
D. Resources
|
|
|
|
Scott Yanoff's "Internet Services List"
|
|
|
|
Scott Yanoff produces a list of interesting resources on
|
|
the Internet. While few of them are economics (and those
|
|
that are covered above) many are quite interesting
|
|
and useful. One I find particularly interesting is the
|
|
University of Illinois weather gopher -- you can find
|
|
weather forecasts for any part of the country. Another
|
|
interesting resource is books.com, a bookstore on the
|
|
Internet. For those that live in rather small towns like
|
|
me, this is a very valuable service.
|
|
|
|
Yanoff's list is well worth looking at for those new
|
|
to the Internet.
|
|
|
|
FTP: csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/inet.services.txt
|
|
|
|
|
|
John December's "Information Sources: the Internet
|
|
and Computer-Mediated Communication"
|
|
|
|
This document has a broader concept than Yanoff's;
|
|
rather than listing just resources, December lists a
|
|
number of documents as well, such as electronic guides
|
|
to the Internet, and software sites. The breadth is quite
|
|
remarkable. Like Yanoff's list, those new to the Internet
|
|
will find it quite useful.
|
|
|
|
FTP: ftp.rpi.edu:/pub/communications/internet-cmc.txt
|
|
|
|
|
|
File Compression, Archiving, and Text<->Binary Formats:
|
|
|
|
This document, by David Lemson (lemson@uiuc.edu) details
|
|
the numerous methods of file compression used on the
|
|
Internet and elsewhere.
|
|
|
|
FTP: ftp.cso.uiuc.edu:/doc/pcnet/compression.
|
|
|
|
|
|
16. NON-INTERNET RESOURCES
|
|
|
|
A. Introduction
|
|
|
|
While this document is primarily about resources on the Internet
|
|
of interest to economists, there are several resources not on the
|
|
Internet that might be of interest. I hasten to add that I have
|
|
not tried any of these and am only reporting what I have read
|
|
elsewhere.
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. Federal Reserve Bank Bulletin Boards
|
|
|
|
Dallas (214) 220-5169
|
|
Minneapolis (612) 340-2489
|
|
St. Louis (314) 621-1824
|
|
|
|
I understand that the St. Louis Fed has a wealth of historical
|
|
data (including money data, obviously), while the Minneapolis
|
|
Fed has FOMC minutes, and speeches and testimony of Fed officials.
|
|
|
|
|
|
C. Electronic JEL Index
|
|
|
|
I understand that though CompuServe's Knowledge Index and
|
|
IQuest (they offer a number of sometimes overlapping databases),
|
|
the Economic Literature Index is available after hours. It is
|
|
available during working hours through Dialog, but it is
|
|
quite expensive. One hopes that someday membership in the AEA
|
|
will have its privileges and members won't have to pay for access
|
|
to this database.
|
|
|
|
|
|
D. On-Line Refereed Economics Journal
|
|
|
|
I understand that a bulletin board run by Steven W. Dickey of
|
|
Eastern Kentucky University "publishes" refereed articles. He
|
|
can be contacted at (606) 622-4987, and the bulletin board is
|
|
at (601) 624-3934, UARTS 2400, 8-N-1.
|
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