Favorite Links 

Resources for economists
Economic media and periodicals
Resources on Russian science
Other science and technology related links
Resources on the former Soviet Union
Miscellaneous



Resources for economists

Resources for economists on the Internet

More links for economists

The Mining Company's guide to economics-related Web sites

Social Science Research Network

Economics associations and societies worldwide

Links to economics departments in the USA

American Economic Association

American Economic Association Directory of Members

National Bureau of Economic Research

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

State Statistics Committee of Russia

Links to the statistics offices in many countries

TSER - Targeted Socio-Economic Research (a European Union program)

U.S. Federal Reserve Board

The Economist Intelligence Unit

Centre for Economic Policy Research

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

World Bank's Sector Unit for Private and Financial Sector Development, Europe and Central Asia Region (ECSPF)

Texts of classical works in the history of economic thought

The Information Economy Web site (economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues)

Economics of networks Web page

Debate about the global financial crisis (Web site of Nouriel Roubini, member of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors).

Privatization Link (a service of the World Bank Group to deliver information on privatization in developing countries and transition economies).

Web site containing materials about electronic commerce (with a focus on Russia)

The project "Virtual Society? The Social Science of Electronic Technologies" (Brunel University)

The Merrill Lynch Forum

Personal homepages:
Brad De Long (University of California at Berkeley)
Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire)
Paul Krugman (MIT)
Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
Oleg Petrov (World Bank)
Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame)
Hal Varian (University of California at Berkeley)
Charles Wilber (University of Notre Dame)
Charles Wyplosz (University of Geneve)

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Economic media and periodicals

Financial Times
The Economist
Euromoney
Le Monde Diplomatique
International Herald Tribune
AK&M Agency (Russian economic news and analytical materials)
Prime-TASS Agency (Russian economic news and analytical materials)
Ros business consulting (Russian economic news and analytical materials)
Expert (On-line version of a Russian-language economic magazine)
 
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Resources on Russian science

Ministry of Science and Technologies of the Russian Federation

Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Center ISTINA (Moscow)

Analytical Center for Science and Industrial Policy (Moscow)

Center for Science Research and Statistics (Moscow)

Russian legislation on science and technology

Workshop on the Future of Russian Science and Technology (Moscow, 15-16 December 1998), organized by OECD and the Russian Ministry of Science and Technologies - a summary of results.

Science and Technology Main Indicators and Basic Statistics in the Russian Federation 1991-1996 (an OECD Report)

"Poisk"  - newspaper of the Russian scientific community (in Russian) - 1997 and 1998 issues in PDF format.

Section "Scientific Community" of the on-line "Russian Journal" (in Russian)

Guide to the History of Russian Science (at MIT)

Russian Federation Programme of OECD

The Soros Foundations Network

Open Society Institute - Russia

International Science and Technology Center

INTAS Program

IREX - Russia

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (click here to view the Web page of the CRDF Moscow office)

Japan's Assistance to the NIS - Cooperation Committee

Funding and exchange opportunities for Russian scientists
Grant-making foundations operating in Russia
Some hints for writing successful applications for grants (further information can be found in The Scientist, 1996, no.9; 1997, no.10; 1998, no.3; a summary of these articles is published in Russian in Poisk, 1998, no.10)

Internet resources on technological business in Russia (in Russian)

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Other science and technology related links:

Comprehensive list of Internet resources on science, technology and society

Science Policy / Technology Management Institutions

Internet sites of main government offices for science, technology and industry

European Guide to Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies

World Wide Guide to Science Studies Programs

Science and technology databases

OECD: Department of Science, Technology and Industry

NATO Science Program - for brief info on scientific cooperation between NATO and Russia click here (Russian language page).

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Society for the Social Study of Science

European Association for the Study of Science and Technology

Science Policy Research Unit (University of Sussex)

‘Innovation Systems and European Integration’ (ISE) Research Project (Linköping University, Sweden)

Evaluation of science and technology policy option in Europe (a TSER project)

Science and Technology Policy Institute of RAND

Science Policy Support Group

Conference on the Need for a New Economics of Science (University of Notre Dame)

Technoscience: On-line newsletter of the Society for the Social Study of Science
Science magazine
Issues in Science and Technology online
Science-week (weekly digest of science news)
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy
La Recherche
Lingua Franca
New York Review of Books
Chronicle of Higher Education

Personal homepages:
Steve Fuller
Loet Leydesdorff
Stephen Miles Sacks's papers related to US Science and Technology Policy

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Resources on the former Soviet Union
(English-language, unless otherwise indicated)

Eurasia News Service (A comprehensive collection of news sources on 35 countries of Eurasia)

Russia Today (Daily political and economic news)

CDI Russia Weekly (A project of the Washington-based Center for Defense Information: news and analysis on all aspects of today's Russia, including political, economic, social, military, and foreign policy issues)

Russian Internet search engines: Rambler, Yandex, @Rus, Russia on the NetList.ru, Aport, All Stars, Weblist, Yellow Pages, Ivan Susanin, Zhurnal.ru.

Friends and Partners Web site

REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies

Center for Political and Strategic Studies (Chevy Chase, Maryland)

Eurasia Research Center

The Harriman Institute

Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and East European Economies

Institute for Economies in Transition - Bank of Finland

Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation

William Davidson Institute

The Eurasia Foundation

Links to NGOs in Russia

Russian Orthodox Internet resources: a comprehensive list (in Russian)

Religious News from Russia

List of radio stations broadcasting in Russian over the Internet

Links to Russian TV stations on the Web

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Miscellaneous

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

A collection of Nicholas Roerich's paintings at Nicholas Roerich museum in New York

Russian classical and rock  music

Internet and WWW: strategy, design, and technology - a collection of links

Major places on the Web where you can get free space for your homepage: Geocities.com, MSN.com, Tripod.com. More resources: List 1 / List 2.

Mapquest: Find any location in the world on interactive maps

The official tourist guide of the Moscow government

Sights and sounds of Russia on the Web

Postmodern essay generator: click here and get a "postmodern" essay (new each time!) - this program was developed by the Department of Computer Science at Monash University



Last updated on 5 January 2000


If you can offer any additions to this list, please send me your links at mb1709@hotmail.com.