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Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
Autobio of Ben Franklin
More personal information I have includes my resumé.
News Sources I've been known to access include
the Wall Street Journal, Fox News,
The Boston Globe,
Rochester D&C
The Tech of MIT, The Des Moines Register,
.
Columnists I like include Jonah Goldberg
(editor-at-large of National Review Online),
who also has a syndicated
column, George
Will, Dave
Barry, and sometimes Mark Steyn. I also visit TownHall.com.
Academic econ and finance:
ELSA
data.gov
Ken French
Using the General Social Survey interface
WRDS
globalfinancialdata
Journals:
Google Scholar,
SSRN
arXiv
U of R's ejournals
JF forthcoming
JF -2006
recent JoF
JFE
RFS -2006
RFS new
E'metrica -2007
E'metrica new
JPE -2004
recent JPE
AER -2007
new AER
For recent research, use the "cited reference search" of the ISI Citation Database to find all articles that cite a given article.
To check the unpublished working paper literature, use the SSRN eLibrary Database Search.
Financial Information sites I visit include The Motley Fool, Morningstar, The Motley Fool, Morningstar, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance
Personal Finance sites include
Sallie Mae,
Direct Federal Loans,
Discover Card,
E*Trade,
HSBC
A few entertainment related web sites I visit are
the US Chess Federation, the Chess Ninja blog, the
Simpsons, the Buffy Guide, Rock
Paper Scissors, and the home page of Orson Scott Card. There's the Internet Movie Database, and you can
find movie times and
locations. I met humor writer Horace
J. Digby (who has a
podcast) through the
Robert Benchley Society.
There's free sheet music at
Mutopia and
WIWA (and here's a list of different music editors).
Open Courseware from
MIT,
Notre Dame,
Tufts,
Berkeley (webcast),
Berkeley (iTunes),
and Stanford (iTunes), and
Khan.
More generally, there's a
list of self-education resources.
Computer-related pages I've considered
worthwhile include
Emacs JDE, an
emacs w3-mode,
Eclipse tutorial,
OpenBook
LinuxWorld,
Linux International,
Red Hat Software,
Free Software Foundation,
The W3 Consortium, and the
XML.org registry.
Koders
JavaSoft, the
Java documentation,
Common Lisp
Scala
scriptaculous
SAS
R
Blogs I read include
Marginal Revolution
The Knowledge Problem
In the pipeline
The Kitchen Cabinet
ColbyCosh.com
Hit & Run
KausFiles
The Commons
The Corner on National Review Online
Instapundit
The Volokh Conspiracy
Megan McArdle,
Ann Althouse,
Matthew Yglesias
Commercial sites I use include Amazon.com, Bookpool, RINCo, and 1-800-Flowers.
Among language and culture-related sites are the
Yamada Language Center,
Human Languages,
Summer Institute of Linguistics,
Foreign Languages for Travelers,
The Babel Arabic site,
Hindi Script Tutor,
Klingon Language Institute,
Pitman Shorthand,
Friends of Tuva
Webapps I should check out some time:
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