A curated collection of links for economists
This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.
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 .edu 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: site:ideas.repec.org <search term>. 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 like this. Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error.
Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google search operators 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 how-to and a manual.
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 short intro. Or use GitHub Desktop 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:
is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and…
High-level dynamic programming language designed to address the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science.
Symbolic computations. Free alternative
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.
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 Textbook (Openstax).
Toolbox to solve and simulate nonlinear models with heterogeneous agents.
Computational tools for financial economics, Python code base and tutorials using Jupyter notebooks, includes data retrieval, graphics, and optimization.
A list of puzzles in macroeconomics.
Tools to solve, filter, and estimate DSGE models with occasionally binding constraints.
Computational economics in Python.
A library for quantitative economics.
Topics in Computational Economics
Matlab toolkit for Value Function Iteration on GPU.
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.
VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills
The awesome collection of OpenClaw skills. 5,400+ skills filtered and categorized from the official OpenClaw Skills Registry.🦞
awesome-dsh-plugin/awesome-dsh-plugin
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Kristories/awesome-guidelines
Programming style, best practices, and coding conventions.
sindresorhus/awesome
😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics [NOTE: Pull requests are temporarily disabled until I have a chance to catch up with the existing ones]
ai-boost/awesome-prompts
Curated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prompt Engineering papers.
matiassingers/awesome-readme
A curated list of awesome READMEs