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 from 2005 onwards. To access content, click login on the ft.com homepage, enter your Essex email address and click sign in with "SSO sign in."
Sign in via SSO - type in your UEssex e-mail to start

The Library subscribes to Factiva, a Dow Jones product, which offers extensive business & financial news.
The Library also subscribes to Refinitiv Workspace, which offers access to Eikon incorporating Reuters business news (functionality includes company specific news and sentiment analysis).

Other useful places to look are major media organisations, such as BBC Economy News, New York Times Economy pages, and other commercial providers like Bloomberg.

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)