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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes data on unemployment and consumer prices, as well as a host of data related to the US labor force.

Market Reasoning as Moral Reasoning: Why Economists Should Re-engage with Political Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel. Published in volume 27, issue 4, pages 121-40 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, ...

EconLit, the economics research database produced by the American Economic Association (AEA), is available on three platforms—EBSCO, ProQuest, and Ovid—each containing the same data but with slightly ...

There is an incredible wealth of economics data available online – but finding the right source can be tricky. Below are links to some of the most useful and popular economics data sources, ...

The modern theory of international trade identifies several additional sources of the gains from international trade beyond the gains from traditional comparative advantage. These are the gains from ...

The American Economic Review: Insights is a general-interest economics journal publishing papers with the quality standard of the American Economic Review but devoted to papers with important insights ...

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About Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty. Published in volume 105, issue 5, pages 48-53 of American Economic Review, May 2015, Abstract: In this article, I present three key facts ...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 introduced sweeping changes to individual and corporate taxation. We summarize the major provisions, trace the origins of the Act, and compare it to previous ...

If there were an Economist's Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations "I understand the Principle of Comparative Advantage" and "I advocate Free Trade." Yet the case for free trade is currently ...

This paper describes two strands of work that converged under the heading of 'endogenous growth.' One strand, which is primarily empirical, asks whether there is a general tendency for poor countries ...