awesome-economics

Over 100 courses covering all major fields of economics. Courses include prerequisites, recommended textbooks, lecture slides, and assignments. Undergraduate and graduate programs

Introductory topics, few prerequisites

Elementary topics

Search across and other educational domains. These materials are more reliable than the big Internet

These equations show principles behind "thinking like an economist". Graduate textbooks put these equiations in context

Top economists reflect on policy-related issues. Some answers contain useful details

A list of useful links maintained by the American Economic Association

Web services for economic researchers: bibliography, blog aggregator, new working papers, software

A list of helpful services

The largest database of economics publications (2,000,000 items). Searching through papers is easier with Google: . Index sources mentioned below

Working papers by major researchers. Many of these papers get published in peer-reviewed journal

Working papers, no journal publications

Searching academic literature in general. Features author pages and citation counters. If you look for economic writings only, IDEAS would be more powerful

380,000 (macro) time series from 80 sources. Supports plugins for importing data into Excel, Stata, R, and others. Has a mobile app

International macro time series. Has data import plugins

The standard reference for macro data

Aggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software

Data related to development economics

Overview of macro data sources

Links to official data sources by country and subject

Over 1,000,000 government datasets. When works, this service looks . Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error

Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google here

If you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here

One more place to request datasets

Economists write in LaTeX because it handles mathematics and references better than Word or LibreOffice. If you write regularly, LaTeX is worth learning

A LaTeX class for presentations

An extension for drawing graphs. A and a

A free and simple editor for LaTeX

Bibliography management. Also install (a) Zotero browser plugin to import papers from RePEc to your library; (b) Zotero-LyX plugin to cite literature easily

A version control system. Useful if you want to revert changes done months ago or collaborate with other authors. DropBox also has version control, but Git is more explicit. A . Or use if you like it simple

Bibliography management. Support synchronization on multiple plateforms: Mac, Windows, Ipad, Phone

An industry standard for statistical computations in economics. Free alternatives:

A Python-based environment. Econometric analysis is done with free packages: statsmodels, SciPy, NumPy, pandas

An R-based environment. R is the standard language among statisticians, so the R repositories often contain specialized libraries not available in other languages

An industry standard for modeling and numerical optimization in economics. Free alternatives:

High-level dynamic programming language designed to address the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science

Symbolic computations. Free alternative

An open source scientific computing softerware

A repository for code and data. Publishing research here is not a common practice, but it's more convenient that alternatives (university home page, DropBox, etc.)

Simple static websites

Large file storage

An interactive alternative to LaTeX and Word. See examples how notebooks look like in and

A community-managed list of common software

Covers software mentioned above and some more

Mark Thoma

Brad DeLong

Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok

Members of CEPR

A Google-based search service for aforementioned blogs

The list of major economic blogs

A Q&A website where you can ask and answer questions

Selected pieces on economic issues

Discussing economic papers

A community with rooms to discuss economics and help members with exercises

Overview of the programs, requirements, and advices to those considering a PhD program in economics

The job board by the American Economic Association

List of academic job openings

List of job openings for economists. Informal

Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Oxford Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK

Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Northwestern University, USA

Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Hagstofa Íslands, Iceland

Team around Pablo Winant providing packages to solve economic models

economics-book

Economics Textbook (Openstax)

econpizza

Toolbox to solve and simulate nonlinear models with heterogeneous agents

fecon235

Computational tools for financial economics, Python code base and tutorials using Jupyter notebooks, includes data retrieval, graphics, and optimization

macro_puzzles

A list of puzzles in macroeconomics

pydsge

Tools to solve, filter, and estimate DSGE models with occasionally binding constraints

pyeconomics

Computational economics in Python

A library for quantitative economics

quantecon_nyu_2016

Topics in Computational Economics

Matlab toolkit for Value Function Iteration on GPU

zice-2014

Course materials for Zurich Initiative for Computational Economics (ZICE) 2014

Development economics datasets. Updated regularly

Free online classroom games for teaching economics

Lecture series by Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski using Python computational tools

Links to popular economics blogs, with brief descriptions