Econ 315: Public Economics

Non-exhaustive list of some sources for term paper

1. Journals publishing literature reviews (accessible through MU Library Website http://mulibraries.1cate.com)

Sometimes also the more technical economic journals (like American Economic Review) publish articles (e.g. presidential addresses on a given topic) that are a valuable non-technical resource.

You can sometimes find working paper versions of literature surveys by just searching online via www.google.com or similar search engine (you should do this web-search anyway). With web searches you are bound find interesting material for your project. However, when citing material from the web, please think critically (this is important always, but especially when using material from the web): Who published the material? Do they have a vested interest on the topic or are they objective researchers (naturally, this is hard to evaluate and the objective researchers often have a vested interest on the topic)? What are the institutional affiliations and what are the credentials of the authors?

2. Think-thanks and private foundations: most of the organizations (albeit not all) below are partisan or at least more sympathetic to one point of view, and this should be taken into account when citing their research papers:

3. Pure Interest Groups

4. Academic and professional organizations

5. Government Resources

Depending on the topic chosen, several governmental agencies publish research on relevant topics. Some of them are listed below, especially CBO and GAO have excellent resources.

5. International Organizations: The following international organizations sometimes publish general (non-US specific) articles on several topics that are relevant for the course:

6. Financial/Economic Newspapers/Magazines (online versions require subscription):

Also excellent sources for finding information from newspapers are: