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Economics Resources

Budget of the US for 1999. Retrieved January, 13, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ustreas.gov/gpra/9bibfi~1.pdf

A major concern of Fiscal Policy has been the Budget deficit created in the 1980's. This site provides information regarding the current budget of the US, with a very nice surplus planned for years to come. Updated 1/25/99

Bureau of Economic Analysis. Data regarding national Income accounts. Retrieved January 25, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn1.htm>

This site provides information useful for Fiscal Policy, the online tutorial I'm developing. The data provided relates to categories of spending and revenue for the US Gvernment.

Sousin, K. (1998). Using the internet to teach economics, an idea page. Retrieved December 17, 1998 from the World Wide Web: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teachsug.htm

This is a very good collection of ideas and resources for teaching economics at all educational levels. Educational use is permitted without request.  See also the site's quiz on supply and demand and other basic concepts in economics at <http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/Dem_Sup/econqui2.htm>.   Educational use is permitted without request.

South-Western College Publishing. (1998). Roger A. Arnold and South-Western College Publishing present Economics, 4th ed. Retrieved December 17, 1998 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.thomson.com/swcp/bef/arnold/arnold.html

This is an excellent example of how this subject matter may be presented in
the Web. This site also includes quizzes.

WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW. Retrieved January 25, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/WebEc.html

One of the best sites for finding everything related to economics, from teaching to data sources to discussions on the subject. This site is worth visiting often because the links are updated frequently.

Technical Resources:

FrontPage software, Microsoft, 1998.  http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/resources/

Relatively simple software to create Webpages. It may be used to create most of the tutorial. License necessary.

MoneyTree Software Company.(September 1, 1997.) QuizPlease 97.2 samples. Retrieved December 28, 1998 from the World Wide Web: http://www.quizplease.com/qpquiz/quiz.htm

This site features software that may be used to design multi-media, interactive quizzes. Licensing is necessary.

Palomar College Academic Technology (1998).  http://daphne.palomar.edu/change/change_2.htm#top

Palomar College technical support.

Top Class (1998). Courseware http://www.wbtsystems.com/solutions/products.html

Good software for complete Web designed courses. License required.

WebCT, 1998. Courseware http://www.webct.com/webct/

Good software for complete Web designed courses. License required.