IDEAS is a service providing information about
working papers to the
economics profession. IDEAS stands for "Internet
Documents in Economics Access Service", which is not very good English,
but you get the idea... There are other services
on the web using part or all of the same database as IDEAS.
The Economics Research
Network ... is dedicated to increasing communication among economics
scholars, practitioners, and
policymakers throughout the world. ERN is a division of Social Science
Research Network (SSRN), which also sponsors the
Accounting Research Network (ARN), the Financial Economics Network
(FEN), the Latin American Network (LAN), the
Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) and the Litigation Network (LitNet).
ERN was the fourth addition to the research networks
sponsored by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Economic Policy Institute"The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think
tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to
achieve a prosperous and fair economy.
EPI was founded in 1986 by a group of economic policy experts,
including the
economist Barry Bluestone; columnist and editor Robert Kuttner;
Ray Marshall,
secretary of labor in the Carter administration; Robert Reich,
former Clinton
secretary of labor; the economist Lester Thurow; and Jeff Faux,
who now serves as
EPI's president. EPI is supported by grants from foundations,
corporations, labor
unions, and individuals."
"Economics is the only field in which two people can share a Nobel Prize
for saying opposing things." [Specifically, Myrdahl and Hayek shared one]
(Economists Jokes)
