Find Business & Economics articles in our library resources.
Other Resources:
Access to some of these resources is limited to Cal U patrons, while others are free Web sites available to anyone.
Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library offers a number of digitized image collections, including these historic advertising collections:
Ad*Access: advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920: advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture
Medicine and Madison Avenue: health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1958
The Bureau of Economic Analysis provides a wide range of economic information under the headings: National, Industry, International, and Regional (state and local).
Survey of Current Business. This monthly journal from the BEA is available online. You can browse each issue, or look for major articles grouped under the four headings listed above.
Provides recent labor and financial demographics, including regional Economic Indicators, Consumer Price Index, and the Monthly Labor Review.
The "Home of PA Work Stats" for Pennsylvania's job seekers, employers, education and training providers, counselors, news media, and workforce professionals.
Find company information, or use the menu on the left to: Create a Company List, Compare Companies, or to get Company Profiles, SEC Filings, Accounting, and Country Profiles. (LexisNexis)
CPI produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by consumers for representative goods and services. Use Average Price Data to find historic prices for a number of commodities, including bread, gas, utilities, etc.
Convert dollar values between different years to see how the cost of living has changed. (To compare the current cost of living between U.S. cities, use the Salary.com site, described below.)
"The Institute stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards of working people." The site offers a number of useful resources for economic information. For statisitics, visit their Datazone, which provides aggregated time series data at the national and state levels.
The SEC requires all public companies (except foreign companies and companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Use this site to access these filings.
FRED is "a database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. With FRED you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series." FRED is one of numerous resources at the Economic Research: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis site.
Investment information covering stocks, bonds, money markets, financial news, and more.
Alternate Access: Enhanced ISCTRC Interface
Doing research in business risk analysis? This resource, designed to cover security & counter-terrorism issues, may be useful. Content includes full-text articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and Background Information Summaries. (EBSCO)
Includes basic and in-depth Hoover's company records. (LexisNexis)
This free site from the Liberty Fund provides online, full-text access to authoritative editions of the classic (i.e., older!) books in economics, along with related works in history, political theory and philosophy. It also includes many other resources useful for researching economic theory and practice.
Books Online: Economics, Reference, and General Interest is an LEL page providing links to other online text collections.
MarketLine provides full-text reports profiling: Companies, Industries, and Countries. Need information about Wal-Mart?...the motion picture industry?...market conditions in Germany? MarketLine has the answers. Also includes information on: company mergers & acquisitions (M&A), economic and demographic indicators for over 200 countries, and market data and forecasts.
NAICS was developed jointly by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to enable statistical comparisons of business and industry activity across North America. NAICS replaced the older Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. Use this site to identify NAICS codes.
Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. From the U.S. Department of Labor.
Contains detailed occupational information for over 230 occupations, covering the majority of jobs in Pennsylvania. Produced by the PA Department of Labor and Industry, Center for Workforce Information and Analysis.
Compare the cost of living--and how this impacts your salary--between different cities in the United States. This site allows you to include different home and work locations.
Find neighborhood profiles containing a wide range of data for every ZIP code in the United States.
Cost of Living Calculator: determine equivalent salaries between selected cities.
Compare Cities: covers every ZIP code and provides more info, but does not provide a salary conversion (but you can compute it from the data).
SBRnet provides information about the sporting goods and sports marketing industry, including: sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing. Provides full-text articles from sporting goods trade publishers and newsletters from leading independent industry experts.
Major source of industrial product information for North American manufacturing companies. Use it to locate companies that manufacture specific products.
This organization provides financial, technical, and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses. Their site offers a vast amount of information on these and other business related topics.
Investing, Personal Finance, stock values, business news, currency rates, and other financial information.
Campus Research offers both News & Business and Law resources. News & Business resources include: newspapers, magazines, trade journals, company information, broadcast transcripts, and foreign language publications. Law resources include: federal and state cases and statutes, law reviews, etc.
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