COURSE READINGS

USEFUL LINKS FOR COURSE WORKS

• EconomicSearch.com - claimed to be "the one-stop shopping site designed specifically for economists and students of Economics"
• Statistical Abstract of the United States - A comprehensive source of information about the U.S.
• FEDERAL RESERVE EDUCATION WEBSITE - How the central bank affects the economy through its conduct of monetary policy.
• Economics Policy Debates on Current Issues
• EconNews Online:  Summaries of the latest economics news stories
• Economics in the News (Irwin-McGrawHill site)
• Hal Varian's "interesting" web page contains many links to other economic resources on the web.
• All the classic books (Marx, Marshall, Keynes, etc...) can be found in this Archive
• Price Theory: An Intermediate Text by David Friedman
• Guides to information resources on economics (Wright State University libraries)
• HUMONGOUS LINKS (to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, think tanks, international organizations ...)
• MY FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINES:
• Multi-engine Search (Dogpile)
• Google
• Altavista

• RECENT NEWS CLIPPINGS
• Current news in/about Vietnam from the Washington Post and the Associated Press, from Reuters (preset search engines using these sites)
• Yahoo! Full Coverage: Vietnam News
• Vietnam Online --From Hanoi, a general web site about all aspects of Vietnam: Business, Travel and Culture...
• The main gateway to Internet resources offered from Vietnam
• Destination Vietnam: Art, Culture, History and Travel
• Vietnam: A Country Study (a very good overview provided by the U.S. Library of Congress--current data only as of 1987 though)
• Guide to tourists

• Nhan Dan [People's Daily]
• Vietnam News Agency
• Vietnam Economic Times
• Vietnam Investment Review
• US-Vietnam Business Development --Noteworthy
• Indochina Chronology [Published by Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University]
• For business information, go to Vietnam - Business Directory, or to Vietnam Trade Network
• The World Bank in Vietnam (special website of the World Bank exclusively for Vietnam)
• Facts about Vietnam according to the CIA World Fact Book 2000
• VIETNAM PROJECT AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY [Publisher of Indochina Chronology]

• American Embassy in Hanoi
• Vietnam Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• The World Bank and Vietnam
• Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) | Publications
• Viet Connect --forum for developmental issues in Vietnam. Includes archives and database of professionals.
• Viet Touch --art, architecture, literature, music, and philatelist history of Vietnam.
• Community Aid Abroad: Vietnam (A treasure trove of links--highly recommended)
• Swedish Working Papers in Economics on Vietnam (from Stockholm School of Economics) - Excellent paper series for serious researchers on the Vietnam economy

• BBC
• RFI  (Radio France Internationale)
• VOV (Voice of Vietnam) | Music |

• SUMMER 1999 LIEGE SEMINAR ON VIETNAM (in Vietnamese)
• SUMMER 2000 NEW YORK SEMINAR ON VIETNAM (in Vietnamese)
• SUMMER 2001 AIX-EN-PROVENCE SEMINAR ON VIETNAM (in Vietnamese)

• RECENT NEWS CLIPPINGS (see also my Readings in International Economics)
• East Asia and the Pacific from the World Bank website
• IMF site map
• Foreign Central Banks
• To read almost everything on the Asian economic crisis, go to this home page of Professor Nouriel Roubini
• The Financial Times Special Report: Asia in Crisis
• A site much like ours is Asia Research Center at Murdoch University (Australia)

• Far Eastern Economic Review (Must read)
• Asiaweek (Newly redesigned, much improved from previous years)
• South China Morning Post
• Asian Business e-magazine
• Special sections (some require paid subscriptions) on Asia in New York Times | Wall Street Journal | Financial Times |  TIME | CNN |

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