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A curated collection of links for economists
https://github.com/antontarasenko/awesome-economics

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  • Studying

    • Courses

      • MIT OCW Economics - Over 100 courses covering all major fields of economics. Courses include prerequisites, recommended textbooks, lecture slides, and assignments. Undergraduate and graduate programs.
      • edX Economics - Introductory topics, few prerequisites.
      • Khan Academy: Economics - Elementary topics.
      • MIT OCW Economics - Over 100 courses covering all major fields of economics. Courses include prerequisites, recommended textbooks, lecture slides, and assignments. Undergraduate and graduate programs.
      • edX Economics - Introductory topics, few prerequisites.
      • edX Economics - Introductory topics, few prerequisites.

    • Useful Materials

      • Academic Search - Search across `.edu` and other educational domains. These materials are more reliable than the big Internet.
      • Foundational Equations of Economics - These equations show principles behind "thinking like an economist". Graduate textbooks put these equiations in context.
      • IGM Economic Experts Panel - Top economists reflect on policy-related issues. Some answers contain useful details.
      • AEA Resources for Economists - A list of useful links maintained by the American Economic Association.
      • Academic Search - Search across `.edu` and other educational domains. These materials are more reliable than the big Internet.
      • Foundational Equations of Economics - These equations show principles behind "thinking like an economist". Graduate textbooks put these equiations in context.

  • Research

    • Portals

    • Articles and Working Papers

      • IDEAS RePEc - The largest database of economics publications (2,000,000 items). Searching through papers is easier with Google: ``site:ideas.repec.org <search term>``. Index sources mentioned below.
      • NBER - Working papers by major researchers. Many of these papers get published in peer-reviewed journal.
      • SSRN Economics - Working papers, no journal publications.
      • Google Scholar - Searching academic literature in general. Features author pages and citation counters. If you look for economic writings only, IDEAS would be more powerful.
      • SSRN Economics - Working papers, no journal publications.
      • NBER - Working papers by major researchers. Many of these papers get published in peer-reviewed journal.
      • SSRN Economics - Working papers, no journal publications.

    • Data

      • FRED2 - 380,000 (macro) time series from 80 sources. Supports plugins for importing data into Excel, Stata, R, and others. Has a mobile app.
      • World Bank Data - International macro time series. Has data import plugins.
      • IMF Data - The standard reference for macro data.
      • Quandl - Aggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software.
      • MEDevEcon - Data related to development economics.
      • Monetary Economics: Data Sources - Overview of macro data sources.
      • OFFSTATS - Links to official data sources by country and subject.
      • International Open Government Dataset Search - Over 1,000,000 government datasets. When works, this service looks [like this](http://web.archive.org/web/20140815054106/http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/node/9903). Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error.
      • Dataset Search Engine - Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google [search operators](http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html) here.
      • StackExchange Open Data - If you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here.
      • Reddit /r/datasets - One more place to request datasets.
      • FRED2 - 380,000 (macro) time series from 80 sources. Supports plugins for importing data into Excel, Stata, R, and others. Has a mobile app.
      • World Bank Data - International macro time series. Has data import plugins.
      • Quandl - Aggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software.
      • Dataset Search Engine - Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google [search operators](http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html) here.
      • StackExchange Open Data - If you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here.

    • Software

      • LaTeX - Economists write in LaTeX because it handles mathematics and references better than Word or LibreOffice. If you write regularly, LaTeX is worth learning.
      • Beamer - A LaTeX class for presentations.
      • TikZ - An extension for drawing graphs. A [how-to](http://cremeronline.com/LaTeX/minimaltikz.pdf) and a [manual](http://www.texample.net/media/pgf/builds/pgfmanualCVS2012-11-04.pdf).
      • LyX - A free and simple editor for LaTeX.
      • Zotero - Bibliography management. Also install (a) Zotero browser plugin to import papers from RePEc to your library; (b) Zotero-LyX plugin to cite literature easily.
      • Git - 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 [short intro](http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/). Or use [GitHub Desktop](https://desktop.github.com/) if you like it simple.
      • Mendeley - Bibliography management. Support synchronization on multiple plateforms: Mac, Windows, Ipad, Phone...
      • Stata - An industry standard for statistical computations in economics. Free alternatives:
      • RStudio - An R-based environment. R is the standard language among statisticians, so the R repositories often contain specialized libraries not available in other languages.
      • Matlab - An industry standard for modeling and numerical optimization in economics. Free alternatives:
      • Octave
      • Mathematica - Symbolic computations. Free alternative
      • Sage
      • GitHub - 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.).
      • GitHub Pages - Simple static websites.
      • GitHub LFS - Large file storage.
      • Most common programs used by Economists - A community-managed list of common software.
      • Software for Researchers: New Data and Applications - Covers software mentioned above and some more.
      • IPython Notebooks - An interactive alternative to LaTeX and Word. See examples how notebooks look like in [data-science-ipython-notebooks](https://github.com/donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks) and [the gallery](https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks).
      • TikZ - An extension for drawing graphs. A [how-to](http://cremeronline.com/LaTeX/minimaltikz.pdf) and a [manual](http://www.texample.net/media/pgf/builds/pgfmanualCVS2012-11-04.pdf).
      • LyX - A free and simple editor for LaTeX.
      • Mendeley - Bibliography management. Support synchronization on multiple plateforms: Mac, Windows, Ipad, Phone...
      • Stata - An industry standard for statistical computations in economics. Free alternatives:
      • RStudio - An R-based environment. R is the standard language among statisticians, so the R repositories often contain specialized libraries not available in other languages.
      • Matlab - An industry standard for modeling and numerical optimization in economics. Free alternatives:
      • Octave
      • Sage
      • GitHub LFS - Large file storage.
      • Most common programs used by Economists - A community-managed list of common software.
      • IPython Notebooks - An interactive alternative to LaTeX and Word. See examples how notebooks look like in [data-science-ipython-notebooks](https://github.com/donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks) and [the gallery](https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks).
      • Octave
      • Sage
      • GitHub LFS - Large file storage.
      • Julia - An open source scientific computing softerware.

    • Useful Materials

  • Career

  • Discussions

  • Economics on GitHub

    • Economists

      • davidrpugh - Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Oxford Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK.
      • gboehl - Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
      • hmgaudecker - Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
      • jesusfv
      • jstac - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
      • mwt - Northwestern University, USA
      • nathanlane - Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.
      • nealbob - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
      • robertdkirkby
      • trickvi - Hagstofa Íslands, Iceland.

    • Projects

      • EconForge - Team around Pablo Winant providing packages to solve economic models.
      • QuantEcon - A library for quantitative economics.
      • VFI Toolkit - Matlab toolkit for Value Function Iteration on GPU.
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Research 67 Discussions 19 Economics on GitHub 13 Studying 12 Career 8 Links Sent by Readers 6 License 5
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Software 34 Useful Materials 32 Data 16 Projects 14 Economists 10 Articles and Working Papers 7 Courses 6 Faculty 4 Undergraduate 3 Portals 3 Graduate 1