"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." - Herbert Simon, Scientific American, September 1995.

Economics

These links were originally collected for my students (in the early/mid-90s), and thus point mostly to good lists of links rather than specific resources. I am especially interested in information specific to Connecticut or the Internet.

Someday they'll be better organized, but right now I'm pretty busy running Bizgrok. If you find a dead link, or a new one that belongs, help a brother out and drop me a line.

Links for Students & Teachers

The World Lecture Hall has links to class information of various kinds.
Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text is a text in progress.
Don't miss Steven Landsburg's Everyday Economics column in Slate!

Starting Points

WebEc
Resources for Economists on the Internet
Resources for Economics Students and Faculty is another good collection of links.
AmosWeb

General Resources of Interest to Economists

FedStats
Stat-USA
The Statistical Abstract of the United States & American FactFinder from the US Census Bureau
US Library of Congress includes Thomas and pointers to many of the web's best resources.
United Nations
BigPictureSMallWorld BigLinks

General Economics Resources

Multidisciplinary

Data

Connecticut & Regional Resources

Economics of the Internet & Communications

Economics of Networks.
The Information Economy, maintained by Hal Varian.
Telecom Information Resources, maintained by Jeff MacKie-Mason.
Economic Paradigms for Information Systems and Networks
Center for Information Systems Management UT Austin
Economics at the FCC and the Telecommunications Act of 1996
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) & the National Regulatory Research Institute (includes some good research links)
Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries, Michigan State University
Public Utility Research Center
Telecoms Virtual Library
SBC-Ameritech Merger (FCC 99-279, CC Docket No. 98-141)

c.f. my comments on MP3.com's Beam-It.

Software & Microsoft

US v. Microsoft: Findings of Fact
Eric S. Raymond has written a number of interesting essays about software & programming, including Homesteading the Noosphere
The Squishy case against you-know-who, an essay by Paul Krugman
Preliminary Analysis of US vs. MS from Economides' Network Economics site.
Comments on Howard Baetjer's Software as Capital by Peter McCluskey. Mr. McCluskey makes the regrettably common mistake of labeling Free Software as collectivist, but his discussion of Perl and Smalltalk is interesting.

Micro

David Friedman has generously put his entire Price Theory text online!
Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page
History of Game Theory
David Levine's Econ & Game Theory Page
Experimental Economics from Ernst Fehr
Agent-Based Computational Economics site by Leigh Tesfatsion
Milton Friedman's classic Free to Choose at Idea Channel. Audio clips from Hayek and others are available there, too.

Online Markets & Markets Online

Macro

There's Something About Macro, notes about teaching graduate macro (and the utility of IS-LM) by Paul Krugman
Ray Fair's macroeconometric models
The Center for Community Economic Research's National Budget Simulation isn't much of a simulation, but it does gives a nice sense of the relative magnitude of various budget categories.

Money & Banking

Mark Bernkopf's Central Banking Resource Center
The Federal Reserve
FRRB Summary Statistics for New England
$95,093.35 (which is not really about Economics, but it's about a bank and it's a good story)

Papers & Reports

This section will not be a comprehensive listing, just links to some papers that I find particularly interesting. If you have a paper available on the web, please drop me a note at webmaster@szarka.org.

Kohn, Value and Exchange
Bowles & Sethi, Persistent Group Inequality
Rayo & Becker, Evolutionary Efficiency and Mean Reversion in Happiness
Mialon, The Economics of Ecstacy
Gokhale, Does Social Security Worse Inequality?
Jenkins, Leafleting & Picketing on the "Cydewalk" - Four Models of the Role of the Internet in Labour Disputes
Mueller, Competing DNS Roots: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?
Samuelson & Scotchmer, The Law & Economics of Reverse Engineering
Massarsky, The Operating Dynamics Behind ASCAP, BMI & SESAC, The US Performing Rights Societies
Lott & Landes, Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, & Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private & Public Law Enforcement
FCC Report: Trends in Telephone Service, March 2000
Galbi, The Economics of Transforming Network Interconnection & Transport
Friedman, Standards As Intellectual Property: An Economic Approach
Williams (SBA), E-commerce: Small Businesses Venture Online
Stoltz, The Case for Government Promotion of Open Source Software
NTIA, Falling Through the Net II: New Data on the Digital Divide
Langlois, Cognition, Redundancy, & Learning in Organizations
Langlois, Scale, Scope, & the Reuse of Knowledge
Varian, Versioning Information Goods
Varian, Market Structure in the Network Age
NARUC Internet Working Group, A Critique of the Unregulated Separate Affiliate Approach to the Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications (DRAFT)
Who Killed Reciprocal Compensation In Massachusetts? Patricia Fusco thinks "bad CLECs" are to blame, but Chris Savage explains why she's wrong.
Gabel, Estimating the Cost of Switching and Cables Based on Publicly Available Data
Weingarten, UNE 'Necessary + Impair' Tests
Unsworth, Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community and Virtual Reality appears to be an unfinished draft of a 1995 paper. I came across it while doing a search for "labor monopoly capital knowledge management" on Google. I didn't turn up as many interesting sites in that search as I thought I might. The connection between Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital and Knowledge Management seems obvious to me, but perhaps there aren't enough folks who run in both circles... Anyone have an interesting paper on the subject for me?
Levitt & Venkatesh, An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances
Goolsbee, In a World Without Borders: The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce
Bertrand, Luttmer, & Mullainathan, Network Effects and Welfare Cultures
Becker & Mulligan, Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government
Neumark & Wascher, Minimum Wages and Training Revisited
Hausman, Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation (a digest is available)
Gasman, Universal Service: The New Telecommunications Entitlements and Taxes
Gintis & Bowles, Does Schooling Raise Earnings By Making People Smarter?
Robertson & Langlois, Stop Crying Over Spilt Knowledge: A Critical Look at the Theory of Spillovers and Technical Change
Langlois, The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System
Nogueira & Cavalcanti, The Safety Net Approach to Internet Pricing
Lott & Mustard, Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns
Margolis, Path Dependence, Lock-In, and History

Are you looking for published journal articles online? If your institution can afford it, JSTOR might be what you want. It's what I want. Please buy me a subscription, too... See also MIT Press' List of Journals & Magazines.