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Government Finance Resources
California State University, Sacramento
Department of Economics
College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies

Spring 2005

Instructor

Overview

Resources

Syllabus

Problem Sets and Solutions

Libraries

Web Sites

Newspapers

Research

Other Resources

 

Recommended Databases for Accessing Journal Articles

(full text accessible through campus computers):

JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/

Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/

National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/search/

Ingenta http://www.ingenta.com/

EBSCO EBSCOhost- Academic Search


Libraries

 

CSU, Sacramento

http://www.lib.csus.edu/index.htm

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/

MELVYL® via the web

http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/

California State Library

http://ferguson.library.ca.gov/

Sacramento Public Library

http://www.saclibrary.org/


Web Sites

 


Newspapers

 

Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/

Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/


Research

The following websites provide excellent access to economic analyses, and current government policy issues.  Most publications are available free over the Internet.  I encourage you to visit these sites, first to recognize the scope of information available to you, and then throughout the semester to assist in completing assignments or as references for class discussion. 

The Legislative Analyst’s Office, California (LAO) http://www.lao.ca.gov/

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) http://www.cbo.gov/

Social Security Administration, Office of Policy http://www.ssa.gov/policy/pubs/

The RAND Institute http://www.rand.org/publications/electronic/

The Little Hoover Commission http://www.lhc.ca.gov/lhc.html

California Research Bureau (CRB) http://www.library.ca.gov/html/statseg2a.cfm

The General Accounting Office http://www.gao.gov/

California State Senate (for current legislation) http://www.sen.ca.gov/

California State Assembly (for current legislation) http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/defaulttext.asp

Official California Legislative Information (for current legislation) http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/

 


Other Resources

 

CNN

http://www.cnn.com/

Public Broadcasting System

http://www.pbs.org/

 

Send problems, comments or suggestions to: sokeefe@csus.edu

California State University, Sacramento
Department of Economics
College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies

Updated: June 18, 1999