most difficult task is to differentiate the junk (most of it) from the few bits of useful information

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Internet Resources

An internet search on a given topic will return a wide variety of hits. The most difficult task is

to differentiate the junk (most of it) from the few bits of useful information. Since you are a

student, just beginning to learn the field, it is only to be expected that you will have a more

difficult time distinguishing the good from the bad. You must be wise, dutiful in checking out

sources, and should ask questions.

You might usefully create a web page of your own. This takes about 30 minutes to learn, and

removes any mystery. Sometimes students think that publishing online is difficult, so only

very high-quality material should be online – FALSE. Anybody imbecile can put any damn

thing online – and we do! You've got to be careful. Blogs and wikis have lowered the bar even

further. A reader needs to be careful and critical of every source.

There are certain sources that have filtered out much of the worst junk. You can limit your

search to only articles published in refereed journals by searching online databases (from the

CCNY Library), such as EconLit and JStor. Of course not everything that is published is correct

– you must still be diligent in finding recent sources, making your own evaluation of the

plausibility of the claims, and arriving at your own judgments.

Both of these links are easily found from the CCNY Library's page, where you can pick them

from the list. You need to access them from a CCNY computer, or else you will need a login

(which the library can provide you, however this takes time so don't wait for the night before

the paper is due!)

EconLit collects citations, most with a detailed abstract, and a large fraction have full text

available. "Full text" means that you don't have to find the physical journal; you never touch

paper. Just save the .pdf file that it produces.

A hint: one of my favorite journals to recommend to students is the Journal of Economic

Perspectives (JEP). This gives excellent overviews of particular topics in economics, meant to

be accessible to a non-specialist, written by some of the most prominent people in those fields.

It is published by the American Economic Association (AEA) and is available through both

EconLit and JStor. The Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) if also from the AEA and it also 

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