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A. Smith, T. Malthus, D. Ricardo, K. Marx, J.S. Mill, Jr.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Redefining Progress
Economic Policy Institute
Resources For Economists

An Economic Information and Analysis Web Site: The Dismal Scientist

Statistical Resources on the Web/Economics
The Social and Economic Development Reference Room
Additional Resources for Educators and Others
The Economist

The Official Paul Krugman Web Page

Wealth and Income Gaps

Responsible Wealth
United for a Fair Economy
The spiral of inequality
Divided Decade Report
How the Pie is Sliced: America's Growing Concentration of Wealth
Economic Policy Institute
minwage.html
Tax Reform Comparison Chart
 

Introduction to Economics (Econ 200)

If the GDP is Up, Why is America Down?
What is the Genuine Progress Indicator?
Consumer Price Indexes Home Page

 Introduction to MicroEconomics (Econ 201)

U.S. v. Microsoft: Court's Findings of Fact
Microsoft Antitrust -Transcript of Which Remedies?

What Are We Learning from the Microsoft Case?
The Betrayal of Adam Smith
The Capitalist Threat
Index of Articles Related to The Capitalist Threa

 

Introduction to MacroEconomics (Econ 202)

The Federal Budget and National Debt
What is the Genuine Progress Indicator?

 

Introduction to International Economics (Econ 204)


International Economic Development
How the  World Works
Globalization and Development (April 2002)
The report includes an excellent analysis of income inequality and “fundamental asymmetries of the global order,” and advocates a rights-based social agenda for the region.

Academic and Research Sites

International Trade: Statistics & Government Sites

The World Trade Organization

The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - IBRD)

The International Monetary Fund

Criticisms of the International Institutional Structure

Asia crisis

The developed world's own history reveals that economies grow most quickly when they either nurture domestic industries or borrow other nations' technologies, two practices prohibited under current trade law. (ZNet)
This article argues that both Britain and the US  achieved economic growth through aggressive protectionism. Yet today, they dictate free trade policies to poor countries.
A report by the International Labour Organization’s World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization calls for a reform of current globalization processes. Globalization must include fair trade rules, core labor standards, and a minimum level of social protection in the global economy.

Free Trade Agreements
Petition of Candlemakers, 1850

NAFTA

 
Race, Class, Gender in the U.S. Economy (Econ 250)

A Portrait of Poverty in Oregon

Resegregtion in America

UO Multicultural Resource Guide

Race Relations Newsletter

The Racial Wealth Gap: Left Out of the Boom

Economic Apartheid Data Center

 
 
Introduction to Environmental and
Natural Resource Economics (Econ 260)
TOPIC: Ecological Economics - General Sites
Centre for Economics and Social Studies on the Environment
http://csf.colorado.edu
Friends of the Earth
Resources for the Future
World Watch Institute
Economic Policy Institute
EPI Issue Brief
  TOPIC: The Environment and Ethics

History of Environmental Ethics for the Novice

Environmental Ethics & Public Policy @ Harvard University

Subjects in Environmental Ethics @ Harvard University

Can Selfishness Save the Environment?, The Atlantic Monthly

Environmental Ethics:  Dr. Ron Epstein, Philosophy Dept., SFSU

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics

Center for Environmental Philosophy
@ University of Texas

Environmental Justice Resource Center @ Clark Atlanta  University


TOPIC: Religion, Spirituality & The Environment

Religions of the World and Ecology @ Harvard University

Eco-Theology Website


St. Francis of Assisi and Environmental Theology


TOPIC: Environmental Economics

TOPIC: Economic Measurement Issues

The Gross Progress Indicator (GPI)

Green Ledgers: Case Studies of Corporate Environmental Accounting

WRI: "Green Ledgers" Contents

TOPIC: Environmental Studies & Reports

ECONorthwest

ECONorthwest | Project Descriptions | Resource Management

Index & Summary of Projects

ECONorthwest | Available Reports

Pacific Rivers Council Economic Reports

Australian Department of Environment and Heritage

TOPIC: PBS Reprorts
                PBS : Trade Secrets 
PBS : Trade Secrets The Alar Scare

PBS - Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge
PBS - Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge - Interactive Quiz
PBS - Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge - Resources
PBS - Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge - Get Involved
TOPIC: "Green" Business

"Natural Capitalism", Amory Lovins, Paul Hawkins, Harvard Business Review

"Natural Capitalism", Paul Hawkins, Mother Jones

"Natural Capitalism", Book Excerpts and Downloadable Chapters

TOPIC: Taxation and the Environment

Citizen's Guide to Environmental Tax Shifting, Friends of the Earth

Government Spending Subsidies for Pollution

Government Taxation Subsidies for Pollution

Citizens' Guide to Environmental Tax Shifting: Chapter 5

Citizens' Guide to Environmental Tax Shifting
 
Welcome to Paying for Pollution
 
Welcome to Paying for Pollution: Tax Subsidies

EcoTaxation sorted : Re: Efficiency Losses / Richard Norgaard


TOPIC: People

Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Herman Daly

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