International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Jun, 2009
International journal of transdisciplinary research
The International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research is a peer reviewed academic journal that is concerned with extending and integrating the study of economics with disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities. As economics is intertwined in almost every field of research, it takes a transdisciplinary approach. It covers issues such as: sustainability, social multicriteria evaluations, ecological economics and the biophysical foundations of economics, systems research, and complexity and post normal science. It also includes articles from fields other than economics on how economic systems really work. Articles are freely available as PDF downloads with an archive of past issues.From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.ijtr.org/

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The Economist: Audio and Video

Posted by Celia Walter | 20 May, 2009
The Economist: Audio and Video

http://audiovideo.economist.com/

The audio and video segments of the Economist online are plentiful, and free. There is no need to register to start listening or watching. Furthermore, there is a very handy feature that allows a visitor to add a segment to their playlist, if they are overwhelmed by all the great choices and don't want to forget to hear them all. On the left side of the screen, visitors can choose view their options by "video", "audio", or "subject". Subject includes categories such as "Asia", "The Americas", "Books and Arts", and "Science and technology". These topics can also be found in the link entitled "From the Audio Edition". The link entitled "Videographics" is a unique feature that should appeal to visual learners, as it uses animated graphics, charts or graphs, rather than photographs or film, to explain a newsworthy concept, such as "A short, recent history of Congo" or "Explaining the Money Markets". Visitors should not miss the video segments called "Kal's cartoons", the link to which is found on the left hand side menu. In these videos, the political cartoonist for the magazine explains various features of his cartoons. "Kal on Thatcher" explains how he drew the former Prime Minister and why. Same goes for "Kal on Bill" and "Kal on Reagan". "The Debate We'd Like To See" with Obama and Hillary Clinton as game show contestants and Regis Philbin as the host may no longer be current, but it is laugh out loud funny, nonetheless. [KMG]

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Predictably Irrational [web site]: topics include "The fallacy of supply and demand"

Posted by Celia Walter | 15 May, 2009
Predictably irrational
Predictably Irrational is a website that accompanies the book of the same title written by Dan Ariely, a Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke and MIT. It is an "attempt to take research findings in behavioral economics and describe them in non academic terms so that more people will learn about this type of research, discover the excitement of this field, and possibly use some of the insights to enrich their own lives". The website includes videos supporting each chapter on topics such as, the fallacy of supply and demand, the effect of expectations and the power of price. The site also includes links to a large selection of academic papers on behavioural economics that detail the research that the book is based upon, a blog that relates subjects in the book to topical events, test yourself exercises / visual illusions and selected chapter excerpts. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.predictablyirrational.com/

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RePEc blog and Research Papers in Economics [RePEc]

Posted by Celia Walter | 17 Apr, 2008

RePEc blog
The RePEc blog is written by the team who produce the Research Papers in Economics website and discusses the workings of RePEc, seeks feedback from the user community, and talks about issues around the dissemination of research in economics. It includes monthly updates about the service, broader dissemination issues such as Open Access and rankings of various economics topics / authors. Users can explore the archive of past posts by month and topic, explore links on various parts of the RePEc service and comment on blog postings. Intute.ac.uk
http://repec.org/blog/

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 63 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available... 

http://repec.org/

RePEc now collaborates with the American Economic Association's EconLit database to provide content from leading universities' working paper series to EconLit.

 The RePEc database holds over 580,000 items of interest, over 470,000 of which are available online:

235,000  working papers
340,000  journal articles
1,500  software components
3,000  book and chapter listings
16,000  author contact and publication listings
10,600  institutional contact listings

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