The Organization and retrieval of economic knowledge : proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association at Kiel, West Germany

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 The Use of Libraries by Economists: A Personal View....Pages 15-48 Computerised Approaches to the Literature of Economics: from ISIS to DEVSIS....Pages 49-66 National Economic Information Systems for Developed Economies....Pages 67-79 The Organization of Quantitative Data in Brazil....Pages 80-99 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 The Effectiveness of Secondary Information Systems in Economics and Industry....Pages 103-120 The High Cost of Information and Some Approaches to Its Acquisition....Pages 121-137 Interlocking Catalogues....Pages 138-158 Organizing an Inter-Library Network: The State University of New York Approach....Pages 159-180 Economics of Computerized Library Networks....Pages 181-196 The Changing Modes of Data in Recent Research....Pages 197-232 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Developments in National Accounts....Pages 235-268 The Usefulness of Microdata and some Strategies for the Storing, Using, and Disposing of it....Pages 269-280 Library Policies for Research in Monetary Economics....Pages 281-293 Development of Fiscal Economics during the Decade 1975–85....Pages 294-313 Information Needs in Regional Economics....Pages 314-333 Information Needs and Data Requirements for International Economic Research....Pages 334-352 Data Needs in Development Economics....Pages 353-365 Information Needs for Agricultural Development, Policy and Planning....Pages 366-382 Competition versus Planned Specialization in the Development of Resources for Research in Industrial Organization....Pages 383-396 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Some Information about Technological Progress and Economic Growth....Pages 397-412 The Relevance of Recent Trends in Economic History to the Information Needs of Research Workers in the Field....Pages 413-427 The Information Needs of Economic Researchers in the Field of Comparative Economic Systems....Pages 428-447 Data in the Planned Economy of the USSR....Pages 448-462 The History of Economic Thought and Analysis; Organization and Retrieval of its Content....Pages 463-477 Front Matter....Pages 479-479 Economics and Contiguous Disciplines....Pages 481-495 Methodologies of Economics....Pages 496-512 Back Matter....Pages 513-520