ECON 3061: Economics Senior Thesis - Prof. Harrison

Welcome! This guide highlights key resources for conducting effective research for the economics senior thesis, including the following: 

• Reference sources to find background information on your topic
• Catalogs and e-book collections to search for books in print and online
• Databases for locating scholarly journal articles, reviews, and working papers
• Reliable strategies for finding and sources of data and statistics
• Databases for locating primary sources such as news articles, transcripts, and videos; U.S. government documents; and other primary source digital collections
• Resources for citing your sources and writing in economics
• Tips to to help keep textbook costs down

If you need assistance identifying additional resources, search terms or strategies, please schedule a research consultation. 

Image: DAILY MENU [held by] CHILDS' [at] [NY] (REST;), 1900, via NYPL Digital Collections

Consult scholarly reference sources to get an overview of a topic, an introduction to a theory, definitions to discipline-specific terms, and more.