*Selected Scholary/Academic Journal Titles:
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Journal of Economic Literature
Monthly Labor Review
Health Affairs
Additional databases for finding scholarly articles:
EconLit
Business Source Ultimate
Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)
NBER - the best source of not-yet-published research studies
Think Tank Publications*
(Look for 'issue briefs' or reports)
Heritage Foundation
Cato Institute
American Enterprise Institute
Brookings Institution
RAND Corporation
Kaiser Family Foundation
Urban Institute
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Economic Policy Institute
*ranked roughly from right-to-left political orientation
Government and Multinational Institutions:
Regional Federal Reserve Banks provide research on a variety of topics, including macro and finance *(Do not select Research Department Working Papers or similar. These are the technical papers written by the staff economists using a lot of advanced theory & econometrics.)*
Look for policy/issue brief types of pubs that are written for a wider audience.
The Fed Banks are also the go-to sources for macro & financial data.
Government Accountability Office (GAO). GAO reports cover a wide range of topics
WorldBank - source for data and reports.
Congressional Budget Office -best source of U.S. budgetary data, covers a wide variety of topics including macroeconomic forecasts
