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Heterodox Economics

As debunking Economics emphasises, economists are not homogeneous. These are some of the many web sites and societies which provide focal points for those who adhere to different schools of thought in economics.

• General critical economics sites
  • Post-autistic economics network
  • Protest against autistic economics newsletter
  • International Society for Ecological Economics
  • CAMpaign for Real EConomics
• Austrian economics
  • Austrian Economics (Chris Sciabarra'a Economics and Liberty Site)
  • Peter Boetke's Austrian Economics Links
  • Society for the development of Austrian Economics
• Complexity theory, nonlinearity, chaos theory
  • Prodec (Program for Dynamic Economics)
  • Society for Chaos Theory (excellent links page)
    • Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology & Life Sciences (journal of the Society)
  • Society for Computational Economics
  • Society for Economic Dynamics
  • Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
• Evolutionary economics
  • Association For Evolutionary Economics
  • Association for Social Economics
  • Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics
• Marxian and other radical economics
  • Marx and Engels Archive
  • Marxism Discussion Lists
  • The Spoons Collective (Marxist and other radical groups)
  • Union for Radical Political Economics
• Post Keynesian economics
  • Centre for Sustainable Future (many Post Keynesian and other progressive sites)
  • Levy Institute (focus for work on finance in the tradition of Hyman Minsky)
  • Post Keynesian Site

• Social Change Australia

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Humour

Never trust an economist who can't tell a joke--her economic advice is likely to be the only joke she tells you.

• Economists Jokes
• Monty Python
• Detroit Free Press Comics
• The Comics Hotlist
• Doonesbury
• Dilbert

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History of Economic Thought Links

• The USA's History of Economics Society
• Documents for the History of Economics
• The History of Economics Review
• Gonzalo Fonseca and Leanne Ussher's excellent HET Page
• History of Economic Thought
• History of Economic Thought (2)
• Post Keynesian Thought Archive
• Economic History Services
• The Historical Text Archive
• Udayan Roy's HET Course
• University of Bristol HET Course
• The Karl Popper Web
• Mackay's classic "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"

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Stock Market Links

Fiendbear despite the name this is a very sober and well-documented page of daily commentary, with numerous links.
Pictures of a Stock Market Mania a monthly detailed look at the statistical properties of the bubble
The Prudent Bear a mutual fund run by people who understand financial fragility
Debt Help Guide (for those who need their finances reorganised)

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General Academic Economics Resources

This list provides links to other sites that catalog journals, reference economic statistics, index working papers in economics and finance, etc.

• Bill Goffe's Resources for Economists (one of the most comprehensive and well maintained sites available)
• Hal Varian's Links Site
• Journal of Economic Issues
• Economics Working Paper Archive
• NetEc Economics Working Paper Archive
• WebEc: Worldwide Web Resources for Economists
• Yahoo Economics Index
• Economics Journals Index
• Social Sciences Research Network
• Journals available over the Web
• Financial Numerical Recipes

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Statistics

These sites provides access to statistical data of interest to economists. Some of this is free, some not.

• Global Financial Database
• Australian Government Entry Page
• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Industry Commission
• OECD Data
• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (excellent USA monetary data)
• Australian Securities Commission
• USA Federal Reserve Bank Statistical Releases
• USA Bureau of Labour Studies
• Economagic

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Political Parties and their policies

Economics and Finance are inherently political. Follow these links to see what major (and minor) political parties have to say on economics and finance policies.

• The Economic Policy Network (USA)
• International Workers of the World (The "Wobblies")

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Booksellers

• DA Information Services
• Electronic Library

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Computers

• Hearne Scientific Software
• Mathsoft (authors of Mathcad)
• Mathworks now maintains a technical assistance page Mathnet. To quote the manager, Mathnet "is a technical computing portal for all scientific and engineering needs. The portal is free and contains over 20,000 useful links to technical computing programmers, covering MATLAB, Java, Excel, C/C+, Fortran and others."
• Vissim (systems dynamics software)
• Matlab (General purpose mathematical software plus Simulink, another systems dynamics package)
• Hardware Buyers Guide
• Tom's Hardware Page (Excellent advice on the best/worst computer hardware)
• The Virus MYTHS Homepage
• Shareware Warehouse
• More Shareware
• ZD Net
• Corel (known mainly for Corel Draw, they also own the best desktop publishing program for Windoze, Ventura Publisher).
• Lotus (once my preferred software suite, now superceded by Corel; Lotus Word Pro trashes Microsoft Word, but like apparently all Windoze software, it is beset by bugs [though less than Word!]. The bug which drove me away was inconsistent autonumbering of structured documents.)
• Microsoft (everybody else's preferred software suite)
• Advanced Revelation (the ultimate relational database)
• Eiffel (previously the ultimate Object Oriented programming language, now superceded by Australia's own Bullant)

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