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
• Routledge Dictionary of Economics
• AmosWEB ECONOMIC GLOSS*arama A large (~1100+) database of economic terms, concepts
• Glossaries of Economics Terms in Principles From the Economics Network
• A Dictionary of Finance and Banking Oxford

Background information

• The SAGE encyclopedia of economics and society
• Encyclopedia of law and economics
• Encyclopedia of political economy 
• International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 
• Encyclopedia of health economics
• 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 SUBJECT Economists - Biography. 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 modern economists [print]
• Lives of the laureates: twenty-three Nobel economists 
• 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 [print]