CAMEO | Ask A Librarian |  Site Search | Home

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Statistical Sources

Below are online and print resources for background information and definitions in economics, as well as major statistical sources. More detailed sources can be located by searching Cameo, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' Online catalog.

Dictionaries and Handbooks:

Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia
Hunt Ref 338.54203 B979

Dictionary of Economics (Wiley and Sons)
Hunt Ref 330.03 B21D

Dictionary of Economics (Oxford University Press)
Hunt Ref 330.03 B62D

Dictionary of Econometrics
Hunt Ref 330.015195 D22D

Dismal Scientist Economics Dictionary

Encyclopedia of Tariffs & Trade in U.S. History 
Hunt Ref382.70973 E56, 3 vols.

Federal Reserve Glossary of Economics Terms

Fifty Major Economists
Hunt Ref 330.0922 P93f

Handbook of Applied Econometrics
Hunt Ref 330.01595 H2362

International Encyclopedia of Economics
Hunt Ref 330.03 I61

New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics
Hunt Ref 330.03 N532

Online Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Hunt Ref 330.03 O98  

Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860-1999
Hunt Ref 338.52 V2152A2

World Business Cycles
Hunt Ref 338.542 W927

Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
4 volumes: Africa; Americas; Asia & the Pacific; Europe
Hunt Ref 330.9 W9274

Working Americans, 1880-1999
3 volumes: The Working Class, The Middle Class, The Upper Class
Hunt Ref 305.5620973

Selected Statistical Sources:

See also the Country Statistics and World Statistics sources section of the International Business resource guide.

American Incomes
Hunt Ref 339.22 A512A

Business Statistics of the United States
Hunt Ref 330.973 B978BA

Consumer Price Index
Consumer Price Index Detailed Report
Current issue at Hunt Ref Desk, older on Hunt 3rd floor

Economic Census

Economic Indicators
Economic Indicators
Current issue at Hunt Ref Desk, older on Hunt 3rd floor

Economic Report of the President Hunt Reference
Economic Report of the President Hunt Reference
330.973 U588

Federal Reserve Bulletin
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Current issue at Hunt Ref Desk, older on Hunt 3rd floor

Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970
Hunt Ref 317.3 U25ABS or on CD-ROM

Household Spending: Who Spends How Much on What
Hunt Ref 658.834 C7586AA

International Financial Statistics Online. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 1945-present

National Accounts Main Aggregates and Detailed Tables
Hunt Ref 339.3 N2772

Standard and Poor's Statistical Service. Basic Statistics and Current Statistics
Hunt Ref 332.63 S78ST

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Hunt Ref 317.3 U25ABS

Statistical Universe

Stat-USA
State of the Nation (current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data)
Globus and National Trade Data Bank

Survey of Current Business
Survey of Current Business
current issue at Hunt Ref Desk, older on Hunt 3rd floor

United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
email adele@andrew.cmu.edu for login name and password.
United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
Hunt third floor

World Development Indicators
Hunt Ref 330.9 W9272

World Trade Annual
Hunt Ref 382 W92