Definitions

Try some of the dictionaries listed below, or search for others by searching the Library catalogue for the SUBJECT: Economics - Dictionaries.

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
• Dictionary of Economics (Oxford, 2017)
• Elgar Dictionary of Economic Quotations
• Routledge Dictionary of Economics
• Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economics: Insights from Archival Research
• AmosWEB ECONOMIC GLOSS*arama (free online)
• Glossaries of Economics Terms in Principles 

Background information

• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Springer, 2019)
• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Elgar, 2000, free version)
• Encyclopedia of Political Economy 
• Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis
• Handbooks in Economics Series (dozens of ebooks each focused on a different aspect of economics: international migration, econometrics, natural resources, and much more)
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Health economics
• Encyclopedia of Health Economics
• SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies 
• The Timetables of History: a Historical Linkage of People and Events [print]

Biographies

If the sources listed below don't have what you need, try Browse Searching the Library Catalogue for the Subjects Economists - Biography or Economists. For individual biographies and discussions of a single person's theories, search for the person's name as a SUBJECT (e.g., Keynes, John Maynard).

• Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
• Fifty Major Economists 
• Great Economists Before Keynes: an Introduction to the Lives and Works of One Hundred Great Economists of the Past (This volume includes Keynes) [print]
• Great Economists Since Keynes: an Introduction to the Lives and Works of One Hundred Great Economists [print]
• Lives of the Laureates: Thirty-Two Nobel Economists  (see also these earlier editions)
• Routledge Handbook of the History of Women's Economic Thought
• Ten Great Economists : from Marx to Keynes /Joseph A. Schumpeter
• The Making of Modern Economics: the Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers 
• Who's Who in Economics — Provides brief information, principal contributions, and a list of publications