LibGuides: Economics: Background Information

Where to Search for Background Information: Economics

Gale E-books
Subjects: MANY
Description: General e-book collection from Gale Cengage Learning containing full text.
Contents: eBooks; Encyclopedias.
Oxford Handbooks
Subjects: MANY
Description: General e-book collection containing full text. Focuses on Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business disciplines.
Contents: Book Chapters; E-books
SAGE Research Methods
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from SAGE Publications containing full text. It includes books, journals, reference materials, handbooks, datasets, cases, and videos about qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; E-books; Streaming Video; Statistics / Datasets

A Dictionary of Economics
Publication Date: 2017

This dictionary contains clear, concise definitions of approximately 3,500 key economic terms.
Handbooks of Economics Online by Elsevier / North Holland
Publication Date: various

Standard introductions to different areas of economics, including current research topics and important developments.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Publication Date: Regularly updated

Scholarly reference work on economics.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Publication Date: 2003

Encyclopedia on economics history with articles and short bibliographies written by scholars. Covers antiquity to the present.