what are some good sites for free reading on economics and finance?
Posted by admin in Finance Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:32 2 Comments
I’m trying to learn as much as I can before taking intermediate economics courses. What are some good sources of reports, essays, or technical papers on the fields of business, economics, or finance? Free or cheap are important to me.
The economist magazine is good. The new york times is okay but leans left, the wall street journal is okay but leans right. Read them both and interpolate for political coverage that affects the economy. The Washington post has some good writers.
Just be aware of the editorial slant of the publications and be alert for that perspective to creep into the selection of stories or the prominence of certain columnists.
For reports, essays and papers, go to the university websites, looking at the school of business and the economics departments pages for links to journals and papers. Some will cost some money to read, but plenty of free stuff is out there.
For non-keynesen economics, real economics, you can look at these sources.
http://www.jonathangullible.com/translations/UK_Comnt040222.pdf
http://fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson/ “Economics In One Lesson”
http://freekeene.com/files/Healing_Our_World.pdf “Healing Our world”
http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/The_Law.pdf The Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk “Fear the Boom and Bust” a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
http://mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf