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U.S. Government Websites	International Organizations		Books, Articles, and Data	Think Tanks that focus on Taxes	Think Tanks, focus on USA	Think Tanks, international affairs focus
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US Government Websites

• Congressional Budget Office
• Their report on Effective Federal Tax Rates, 1979-1997
• The Council of Economic Advisors
• Large files containing various years, Economic Report of the President
• The Office of Management & Budget publications page, or OMB
• Treasury Dept. Office Of Economic Policy
• Here is the BLS site on foreign labor statistics
• Office of the US Trade Representative
• National Bureau of Economic Research
• Federal Reserve Board
• US Agency for International Development (USAID)

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International Organizations

• The World Bank
• and their page on economic growth
• International Monetary Fund
• World Trade Organization
• WTO page on 10 misunderstandings about us….
• The EU home page, English version
• A page about the Euro
• G8 Information Center, at the University of Toronto
• United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD)
• United Nations Human Development Report, and their development indicators
• United Nations Development Program
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
• United Nations International Labor Organization
• Other United Nations offices online
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (check topics on left)
• The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, CSCE/ OSCE online library
• Asian Development Bank

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Books, Articles and Data online

• classic works in pe, on the web: http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/oldbooks.htm
• The Big Mac Index, from The Economist
• Professor Nouriel Roubini, of NYU, maintains the Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site, including information on the Asian and other economic crises. This is a great resource. Thanks to professor Roubini. You can also see his online course material for Understanding The World Macroeconomy.
• The Marxist Internet Archive maintains a set of classics of political economy.
• the main marxist internet archive page: http://www.marxists.org/index.htm
• online glossary: http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/glossind.html
• Check Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for statistics
• Do you like econ time series data? go to http://www.economagic.com/
• Papers from the Political Economy Workshop, Yale’s Leitner Program in International PE
• Some people at Morgan Stanley publish commentary on economic news http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/latest-digest.html
• International Crisis Behavior Project's data archive

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Think Tanks that focus on tax issues

· Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center provides timely, accessible analysis and facts about tax policy to policymakers, journalists, citizens, and researchers.

• From Brookings, An article by William G. Gale and Samara R. Potter, An Economic Evaluation of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, National Tax Journal, March 2002
• Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
• Citizens for Tax Justice
• The Tax Foundation
• The Economic Policy Institute

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Think Tanks, focus on USA

• The Brookings Institution:
• Economic Policy Institute
• American Enterprise Institute
• Progressive Policy Institute
• Paul Krugman’s web site. Note that Krugman is an expert on international trade, too.
• The Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy
• UW’s Center for Labor Studies
• Interest Groups that focus on business, labor, economics, courtesy of Kathi Fountain at CSU Chico
• The Carnegie Endowments page on links to Think Tanks
• Political Economy Research Institute, at UMass @ Amherst, and their links.
• Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
• Economic History Servies has links to people & orgs interested in econ history.
• Public Citizen’s Trade Watch
• Reason Public Policy Institute

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Think Tanks, international affairs focus

• Professor Nouriel Roubini, of NYU, maintains the Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site, including information on the Asian and other economic crises. This is a great resource. Thanks to professor Roubini. You can also see his online course material for Understanding The World Macroeconomy.
• Harvard’s Global Trade Negotiations home page.
• The Center for European Reform
• International Development Research Center
• Institute of Economic Affairs
• The Centre for Policy Studies
• The Institute for International Economics
• The Multinational Monitor
• CSIS topics/scholars
• SIPRI publications
• From Carlton College, Country Indicators for Foreign Policy

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