SSI221.Microeconomics.Latif

=Course: SSI 221: Microeconomics=
 * Prof. Nasreen Latif**



This guide is designed to help you research Microeconomics topics below. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!

STRANDS OF TOPICS

 * Strand A: Market** **Outcomes: Competition or Protection for American Agriculture**
 * Strand B: Imperfect Competition: Big Businees-Threat or Benefit**
 * Strand C: Health Care: Effects of Health on Income**
 * Strand D: Education: Relationship between Health and Education**
 * [|RCC Library Home Page]: Most materials found in this research guide are available at the library's home page.
 * Please contact Ted Intarabumrung, tintarabumrung@rcc.mass.edu, if you have any questions concerning this guide or research.

=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest. [|Tutorial for searching catalog and ordering books from Metro Boston Library Network (includes BPL)] Your textbook, __//Microeconomics//__ by Samuelson and Nordhaus, is a good source for consults of research topics.

Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase

 * microeconomics and "factors of production"
 * microeconomics and monopoly
 * microeconomics and competition

=Books Online= Approximately 7,000 electronic books can be accessed on campus only. 45 titles under subject term-economics. Selected titles below related to microeconomics. To browse them, click their hyperlinked titles.

[|Unholy Trinity: Labor, Capital, and Land in the New Economy]by Gray Schumpeter.

[|Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-being: the Search for the Good Life and the Body Perfect]by Helga Dittmar and Emma Halliwell.

[|Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics Regional 2007: Beyond Transition] by Francois Bourguignon and Boris Pleskovic.

=New Books=


 * __Economics Is Everywhere__.** **HB172 .H364 2006**


 * __Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Developments__**. **HB74 .P8 H63 2006**


 * __Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters.__** **HB74 .P8 C69 2007x**

=Reference Books= __**The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics,**__ edited by Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, **Ref.HB61 .N49 1991**

__**Handbook of Markets and Economics: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand,**__ edited by Anthony Pecotich and Clifford J. Shultz II, **Ref.HF5415.33 .A78 H36 2006**

=Reference Books Online= RCC Library barcode is required to access these reference books off campus. =Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's first floor periodicals section for articles related to Microeconomics topics.
 * [|Collins Dictionary of Economics]
 * [|Dictionary of Economics, Wiley]
 * [|Penguin Dictionary of Economics]
 * [|Wall Street Words]
 * Business Week
 * Harvard Business Review
 * The Economist
 * Newsweek
 * U.S. News & World Report
 * Wall Street Journal

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases. Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study. Around 149 full-text and peer-reviewed articles under a subject term, microeconomics. [|Tutorial]
 * ==[|Academic Search Premier]==

Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Around 134 full-text and peer-reviewed articles under subject term, microeconomics. [|Off Campus] [|Tutorial]
 * ==[|Academic OneFile (On Campus)]==

=Web sites= There are many good web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Lesley University] has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Economic Indicators], compiled by the Service of the U.S. Government Printing Office.
 * [|Economic Fact Sheet (Statistical Information): Business and Industry; Foreign Trade; Employment; Revenue and Expenditures], prepared by U.S. Census Bureau.
 * [|USASearch.gov]
 * [|Scholar.Google.com]

Open Access journals
=Basic Research Help= Please click the Ask a Librarian icon if you have any questions concerning these guides, need help finding material for your research or any general questions you might have.
 * [|Directory of Open Access Journals]
 * Looking for books? Search our [|Online Catalog].
 * Looking for articles? Search our [|Databases].
 * Can't find what you are looking for? Use our [|InterLibrary Loan Form].

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Research guide prepared on 07.29.08 by Ted Intarabumrung: tintarabumrung@rcc.mass.edu