My Favorite Links Related to Economics
Archives
Blog Posts, Letters, OP-EDs – Steve Balkin’s
City Needs New Policy for the New Maxwell Street Market: an Open Letter to Mayor Elect Emanuel
Blogs
Data and Tools
AEI-Brookings Cost of Iraq War – simulation
Favorite Economics Songs
A Tale of the Ticker by Frank Crumit (1929) http://radicaljournal.com/protest_songs/a_tale_of_the_ticker.html
Economics Rap by Stafanski and Dewaele (2007). Amateurish but cute. If you think you could do better, show me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDaMC_ewCCA
40 Hour Week (For A Livin’) by Alabama (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-G2J3RzURA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Calypso by Attila the Hun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyW-B8VZJIYMercedes Benz by Janis Joplin (1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-GFqhCq2HA
Money Money by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1972); sung by Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofN4q_qv0o
Poor Man’s Heaven by Bud Billings & Carson Robison (1930) http://radicaljournal.com/protest_songs/poor_mans_heaven.html
The Internationale by Eugène Pottier (1871) and Pierre De Geyter (1888). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suVB3YGIUk0
The Farm Relief Song sung by Vernon Dalhart aka Mack Allen (1929). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDEGtx71QTM
Tips on the Stock Market, a monologue by Eddie Cantor (1929)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QkxkeRzJE0“In between takes at a recording session on what turned out to be Black Tuesday, 29 October 1929, Cantor was making sarcastic remarks that had the musicians and recording engineers cracking up. The head engineer suggested he record his remarks as a monologue.”
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I would like to thank Andy Senior, 1930s music expert and DJ of Radiola, http://www.live365.com/stations/andysenior , for suggesting many of these tunes.
Government Policy
Federal Reserve Board – News and Events
Federal Reserve Board Schedule
phone number of Federal Reserve Board Public Affairs Office = 202-452-2955
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Federal Reserve Beige Book for the 7th District, Chicago-the Midwest. Published eight times a year, is a summary of commentary on current economic conditions in each Federal Reserve District.
Meta Websites
My Topical Websites
Online Markets
People
Wang Hui – a leading Chinese Intellectual
- Interview from New Perspectives Quarterly
- New York Times article: China’s New Leftist
- Book- China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition
Yoram Bauman – standup economist
References
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics and Liberty (by the Liberty Fund)
Economics A-Z, from the Economist
Social Justice
Faithful America – community of people of faith for a more just and compassionate America
Jubilee USA Network – drop the debt to the world’s poorest countries
ONE Campaign – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Teaching
Tch-econ – an Email discussion list about teaching undergraduate economics
From ABBA to Zeppelin, Led: Using Music to Teach Economics http://divisionoflabour.com/music/
Think Tanks
Zines, Newsletters, and Directories