This guide is designed to help you get started with your Economics research.
Contact info
If you need help, please contact Mark Bodnar, Liaison Librarian - Business & Economics at 778.782.3044 [voicemail] or mbodnar@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.
New Economics books
- International trade under President Reagan : US trade policy in the 1980s /
- Just price in the markets : a history /
- Removal and return : the socio-economic effects of the war on Japanese Americans /
- My journeys in economic theory /
- The bewitched world of capital : economic crisis and the metamorphosis of the political /
- The Mexican petroleum industry, 1938-1950 /
- Twenty-first-century capital : critical post-soviet Marxist reflections /
- Economic policy in postwar Japan : growth versus economic democracy /
- The nature and impacts of noncompliance /
- Concentration and price-cost margins in manufacturing industries /
- Navigating the new political economy in Southeast Asia : perspectives from Japan, Taiwan and the region /
- The economic status of the aged /
- The solidarity economy /
- Rentier capitalism : who owns the economy, and who pays for it? /
- International trade and central planning : an analysis of economic interactions /
- The Paradox of Debt : A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis /
- Making health work : human growth in modern Japan /
- First births in America : changes in the timing of parenthood /
- The problem of twelve : when a few financial institutions control everything /
- The Pacific coast maritime shipping industry, 1930-1948.
- The economics of creative destruction : new research on themes from Aghion and Howitt /
- The rich get richer : American wage, wealth and income inequality /
- Households : comparative and historical studies of the domestic group /
- The rise and fall of the East : how exams, autocracy, stability, and technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline /
- A treatise on war inflation : present policies and future tendencies in the United States /
- The Lure of Economic Nationalism : Beyond Zero Sum /
- Farm crisis 1919-1923 /
- Cost of medical care : the expenditures for medical care of 455 families in the San Francisco Bay area, 1947-1948 /
Help with course assignments
Course guides are created for Economics courses that involve research assignments and/or library instruction.
- ECON 220W: Communication in Economics
- Handout - D100 (Spring 2020)
- Handout - D200, D300, D400 (Spring 2020)
- Blog post: Basic income & beyond: Researching economic policy topics (Fall 2020)
- ECON 409W: Seminar in Economic Thought (Summer 2019)
- Handout
- SFU Library Catalogue
- Google Scholar
- Web of Science
- Blog post on economic/news history sources: *When* matters! Get some context from economic history & historical news sources
- Economics background information: Biographies, handbooks, etc.
- Citation & Style Guides - Harvard is listed under "Interdisciplinary and general"
- Student Learning Commons: writing, studying, and learning skills
- ECON 807: Macroeconomic Theory and Policy (Spring 2017)
- Blog post: CANSIM and more for ECON 807
- Blog post: CANSIM and more for ECON 807
- ECON New Graduate Student Orientation (Fall 2023)