Library & Cultural Services: Economics: News

News

Working papers & preprints (see above) are useful for current awareness, but news sources & blogs are even more up to date. Two important sources of quality news in Economics & Finance that the Library subscribes to are:

Economist.com
The Economist online offers authoritative insights on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. It publishes all articles from The Economist print edition and maintains a searchable online archive that dates back to June 1997. It also offers a variety of web-only content, including blogs & debates. We have access to the Economist website off-campus by launching The Economist from the UE software hub.
FT.com : Financial times
The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, with comment and analysis from the Financial Times team, plus an archive of the Financial Times (including facsimile of the print edition) from 2005 onwards.;Students and staff can create a personal FT.com logins, that can then be used for off campus access, as well as access via iPhone/ BlackBerry and any other smart mobile. Please use your University email address so that your account can be affiliated to our institutional subscription. Your account can also be used for setting up Markets Portfolios to monitor their performance, saving selected articles into groups and sharing them with students, professors, and the use of MBA Newslines.
FT personal registration

Other useful places to look are major media organisations, such as BBC Economy News, New York Times Economy pages, etc.

Commercial organisations like Bloomberg and Reuters are important providers, especially for financial & markets news. The Library subscribes to Refinitiv Workspace, which offers access to Eikon incorporating Reuters business news (functionality includes company specific news and sentiment analysis).

The library also has access to the Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2016) and the Economist Historical Archive (1843-2015)

Blogs

There are a large number of blogs in Economics, some of which can be useful, particularly for discussion of current, policy-related topics. Respected blogs include:

Mainly Macro
award-winning blog from UK economist Simon Wren-Lewis with a strong policy focus
Marginal Revolution
Highly rated blog by two academics at George Mason University in the US
VOX
from the eminent London think tank, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)