Ask the Professor References for Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I find the GDP of a country in a given year?
Where can I find the employment/unemployment of a country in a given year?
Where can I find the inflation rate of a country in a given year?
Where can I find exchange rates for a country for a given year?

• The following websites provide links to many U.S. government websites where the above information can be found:
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/index.asp (Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data)
U.S. Macro and Regional Data (American Economic Association's "U.S. Data")
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ (Historical United States Census Data Browser")
• For historic Federal Reserve data:
  http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/ (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
• For countries other than the U.S., the following website provides links to country-specific websites:
  World and Non-U.S. Data (American Economic Association's "World and Non-U.S. Data")
• For exchange rates, the following website provides historical exchange rates between the US Dollar and 40 other currencies:
  http://www.eh.net/hmit/exchangerates/
• For exchange rate conversions, the following website allows you to calculate how much a given currency amount is in another currency:
  http://www.xe.net/ucc/
• For historical exchange rates between the UK Pound and US Dollar, see the How Much Is That calculator Computing 'Real Value' over time with a conversion from British Pounds to U.S. Dollars, or vice versa.

Where can I find information on the events that occurred in a particular year?

• The following website offers a history timeline for the U.S.:
  http://www.historytimeline.com
• The following website provides a historical timeline of the world and offers brief biographical sketches on important individuals through history:
  http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html (HyperHistory)

3. Where can I find information on a particular economist?

• Using a search engine such as Yahoo! or Google, with the economists name as the keyword, may provide you with multiple websites dedicated to that economist and their work.
• The following websites provide links to websites dedicated to economists:
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Soial_Science/Economics/Economists/ (Yahoo's Directory of Economists)
• http://www.datacomm.ch/dbesomi/Links/links-In.html

Where can I find more information on the Great Depression?

• You can find Randall Parker's article on the Great Depression in the EH.Net encyclopedia.
• Yahoo! also provides links to sites on the Internet dedicated to the Great Depression: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=great+depression.

5. Where can I find more information on the Industrial Revolution?

• Yahoo! provides links to sites on the Internet dedicated to the Industrial Revolution:
  http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=industrial+revolution

Where can I find more information on business cycles and economic fluctuations?

• http://www.nber.org/cycles.html (US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions)

Other Useful Sites

The following websites provide links to helpful sites on the web:

• http://rfe.org ("Sources for Economists on the Internet")
• http://www.progress.org/econolink/ ("Econolink")
• http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecon.html (University of Michigan)
• http://www.economicsearch.com/ ("Economic Search")
• http://www.nber.org (National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.)