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Cambridge Core - Cambridge’s economics list is renowned for the breadth and quality of its publishing. Its book list is home to the work of some of the most important economists in the history of the discipline, most notably John Maynard Keynes, as well as the work of almost 30 Sveriges Riksbank Nobel Prize laureates, including Kenneth Arrow, Herbert Simon, Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz. Subjects covered include:

 

Oxford Scholarship Online - Recent books published by Oxford University Press. While individual titles are listed in Virgo, Economics and Finance is one of the browsable subject collections. Please note that access to pre-2015 content is limited to 5 simultaneous users, but everything else is unlimited.

 

OECD iLibrary - Full text (in PDF format) of all books, reports, periodicals, and statistical databases published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

 

O'Reilly for Higher Education - Used to be called Safari Books Online. Includes tech and business content from more than 250 publishers including O'Reilly, Sams, New Riders, Adobe - along with videos, case studies, expert-curated learning paths and self-assessments. From the drop-down menu, choose: Not listed? Click here. Then enter UVa email address to access content.

 

Routledge Handbooks Online - RHO brings together leading scholars to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities. They have collections on Business, Management & Accounting; Economics and Finance; and Tourism, Hospitality and Events.  We have limited access - check the Full Access Only box at the top of the left menu before searching. 

 

Sage Research Methods Online - SAGE Research Methods is a methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.

 

Open Access Sources

Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank) - The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form.

Call Number Ranges

  • HB1-3840 Economic theory. Demography
  • HB71-74 Economics as a science. Relation to other subjects
  • HB75-130 History of economics. History of economic theory
  • HB131-147 Methodology
  • HB135-147 Mathematical economics
  • HB201-206 Value. Utility
  • HB221-236 Price
  • HB238-251 Competition. Production. Wealth
  • HB501 Capital. Capitalism
  • HB522-715 Income. Factor shares
  • HB535-551 Interest
  • HB601 Profit
  • HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property
  • HB801-843 Consumption. Demand
  • HB846-846.8 Welfare theory
  • HB848-3697 Demography. Population. Vital events
  • HB3711-3840 Business cycles. Economic fluctuations
  • HC10-1085 Economic history and conditions
  • HC79 Special topics Including air pollution, automation, consumer demand, etc.
  • HC92 Economic geography of the oceans (General) 
  • HC94-1085 By region or country
  • HD28-9999 Industries. Land use. Labor
  • HD28-70 Management. Industrial management
  • HD39-40.7 Capital. Capital investments
  • HD41 Competition
  • HD45-45.2 Technical innovations. Automation
  • HD47-47.4 Costs
  • HD49-49.5 Crisis management. Emergency management. Inflation
  • HD50-50.5 Delegation of authority. Decentralization. Span of control
  • HD56-57.5 Industrial productivity
  • HD58 Location of industry
  • HD58.7-58.95 Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
  • HD59-59.6 Public relations. Industrial publicity HD60-60.5 Social responsibility of business
  • HD61 Risk in industry. Risk management
  • HD62 Standardization. Simplification. Waste
  • HD62.2-62.8 Management of special enterprises
  • HD66-66.2 Work groups. Team work in industry. Quality circles
  • HD69 Other. Including business consultants, capacity, size of industries, etc.
  • HD72-88 Economic growth, development, planning 
  • HD101-1395.5 Land use. Land tenure
  • HD1286-1289 Communal ownership
  • HD1290-1291 Municipal ownership
  • HD1301-1313 Nationalization (Agrarian socialism)
  • HD1326-1329 Large holdings
  • HD1330-1331 Landlord and peasant
  • HD1332-1333.5 Land reform.  Agrarian reform
  • HD1334-1335 Consolidation of land holdings
  • HD1336-1339 Small holdings.  Peasant proprietors. Parcellation
  • HD1361-1395.5 Real estate business
  • HD1401-2210 Agriculture
  • HD1428-1431 International cooperation
  • HD1470-1476 Size of farms
  • HD1478 Sharecropping
  • HD1483-1486 Agricultural associations, societies, etc.
  • HD1491-1491.5 Cooperative agriculture
  • HD1492-1492.5 Collective farms
  • HD1493-1493.5 Government owned and operated farms.  State farms.  Sovkhozes
  • HD1501-1542 Agricultural classes. Including farm tenancy, agricultural laborers
  • HD1549 Gleaning
  • HD1580 Reclamation of agricultural land.  Melioration
  • HD1635-1702 Utilization and culture of special classes of lands. Including pasture lands, water resources development
  • HD1711-1741 Irrigation
  • HD2321-4730.9 Industry
  • HD2329 Industrialization
  • HD2330 Rural industries
  • HD2331-2336 Home labor.  Home-based businesses
  • HD2337-2339 Sweatshops
  • HD2340.8-2346.5 Small and medium-sized businesses, artisans, handicrafts, trades
  • HD2350.8-2356 Large industry.  Factory system.  Big business
  • HD2365-2385 Contracting.  Letting of contracts
  • HD2421-2429 Trade associations
  • HD2709-2930.7 Corporations. Including international business enterprises, diversification, industrial concentration, public utilities
  • HD2951-3575 Cooperation.  Cooperative societies
  • HD3611-4730.9 Industrial policy.  The state and industrial organization. Including licensing of occupations and professions, subsidies, inspection, government ownership, municipal services
  • HD4801-8943 Labor.  Work.  Working class
  • HD4861-4895 Labor systems
  • HD4909-5100.9 Wages
  • HD5106-5267 Hours of labor. Including overtime, shift work, sick leave, vacations
  • HD5306-5474 Labor disputes.  Strikes and lockouts
  • HD5481-5630.7 Industrial arbitration.  Mediation and conciliation
  • HD5650-5660 Employee participation in management. Employee ownership.  Industrial democracy. Works councils
  • HD5701-6000.9 Labor market.  Labor supply.  Labor demand. Including unemployment, manpower policy, occupational training, employment agencies
  • HD6050-6305 Classes of labor. Including women, children, students, middle-aged and older persons, minorities
  • HD6350-6940.7 Trade unions.  Labor unions.  Workers' associations
  • HD6941-6948 Employers' associations
  • HD6951-6957 Industrial sociology.  Social conditions of labor
  • HD6958.5-6976 Industrial relations
  • HD6977-7080 Cost and standard of living
  • HD7088-7252 Social insurance.  Social security.  Pension
  • HD7255-7256 Vocational rehabilitation.  Employment of people with disabilities
  • HD7260-7780.8 Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare
  • HD7795-8027 Labor policy.  Labor and the state
  • HD8031 Labor in politics.  Political activity of the working class
  • HD8038 Professions (General).  Professional employees
  • HD8039 By industry or trade
  • HD8045-8943 By region or country
  • HD9000-9999 Special industries and trades
  • HD9000-9495 Agricultural industries
  • HD9502-9502.5 Energy industries.  Energy policy.  Fuel trade
  • HD9506-9624 Mineral industries.  Metal trade
  • HD9650-9663 Chemical industries
  • HD9665-9675 Pharmaceutical industry
  • HD9680-9714 Mechanical industries. Including electric utilities, electroni industries, and machinery
  • HD9715-9717.5 Construction industry
  • HD9720-9975 Manufacturing industries
  • HD9999 Miscellaneous industries and trades

  • HE1-9990 Transportation and communications
  • HE199-199.5 Freight (General)
  • HE199.9 Passenger traffic (General)
  • HE305-311 Urban transportation
  • HE323-328 Transportation geography.  Trade routes
  • HE331-380 Traffic engineering.  Roads and highways. Streets
  • HE369-373 Traffic surveys (General)
  • HE374-377 Bridges
  • HE379-380 Tunnels.  Vehicular tunnels
  • HE380.8-971 Water transportation
  • HE380.8-560 Waterways
  • HE561-971 Shipping
  • HE730-943 Merchant marine.  Ocean shipping.  Coastwise shipping
  • HE1001-5600 Railroads.  Rapid transit systems
  • HE5601-5725 Automotive transportation. Including trucking, bus lines, and taxicab service
  • HE5746-5749 Stage lines
  • HE5751-5870 Ferries
  • HE5880-5990 Express service
  • HE6000-7500 Postal service.  Stamps.  Philately
  • HE7511-7549 Pneumatic service
  • HE7601-8700.9 Telecommunication industry.  Telegraph
  • HE8660-8688 Wireless telegraph.  Radiotelegraphy
  • HE8689-8700.95 Radio and television broadcasting
  • HE8701-9680.7 Telephone industry
  • HE9713-9715 Cellular telephone services industry.  Wireless telephone industry
  • HE9719-9721 Artificial satellite telecommunications
  • HE9723-9737 Signaling
  • HE9751-9756 Messenger service
  • HE9761-9900 Air transportation.  Airlines 
  • HF1-6182 Commerce
  • HF294-343 Boards of trade.  Chambers of commerce. Merchants' associations
  • HF1014 Balance of trade
  • HF1021-1027 Commercial geography.  Economic geography
  • HF1040-1054 Commodities.  Commercial products
  • HF1701-2701 Tariff.  Free trade.  Protectionism
  • HF3000-4055 By region or country
  • HF5001-6182 Business
  • HF5381-5386 Vocational guidance.  Career development
  • HF5387-5387.5 Business ethics
  • HF5410-5417.5 Marketing.  Distribution of products
  • HF5419-5422 Wholesale trade
  • HF5428-5429.6 Retail trade
  • HF5429.7-5430.6 Shopping centers.  Shopping malls
  • HF5437-5444 Purchasing.  Selling.  Sales personnel.  Sales executives
  • HF5446-5459 Canvassing.  Peddling
  • HF5460-5469.5 Department stores.  Mail order business.  Supermarkets.  Convenience stores
  • HF5469.7-5481 Markets.  Fairs
  • HF5482-5482.4 Secondhand trade
  • HF5482.6-5482.65 Black market
  • HF5484-5495 Warehouses.  Storage
  • HF5520-5541 Office equipment and supplies
  • HF5546-5548.6 Office management
  • HF5548.7-5548.85 Industrial psychology
  • HF5549-5549.5 Personnel management.  Employment management
  • HF5601-5689 Accounting.  Bookkeeping
  • HF5691-5716 Business mathematics.  Commercial arithmetic. Including tables, etc.
  • HF5717-5734.7 Business communication. Including business report writing, business correspondence
  • HF5735-5746 Business records management
  • HF5761-5780 Shipment of goods.  Delivery of goods
  • HF5801-6182 Advertising
  • HG1-9999 Finance
  • HG178 Liquidity
  • HG179 Personal finance
  • HG201-1496 Money
  • HG258-312 Precious metals.  Bullion
  • HG315 Small coins
  • HG321-329 Mints.  Assaying
  • HG335-339 Counterfeiting
  • HG348-353.5 Paper money
  • HG361-363 Legal tender
  • HG381-395 International coinage
  • HG401-421 Bimetallism
  • HG451-1496 By region or country
  • HG1501-3550 Banking
  • HG1621-1638 Interest rates.  Interest tables
  • HG1641-1643 Bank loans.  Bank credit.  Commercial loans
  • HG1651-1654 Discount
  • HG1655 Acceptances
  • HG1656 Bank reserves.  Bank liquidity.  Loan loss reserves
  • HG1660 Bank accounts.  Bank deposits.  Deposit banking
  • HG1662 Insurance of deposits.  Deposit insurance
  • HG1685-1704 Drafts.  Checks
  • HG1706-1708 Accounting.  Bookkeeping
  • HG1709 Data processing
  • HG1710-1710.5 Electronic funds transfers
  • HG1722 Bank mergers
  • HG1723 Bank stocks.  Banking as an investment
  • HG1725-1778 Banks and the state.  State supervision of banks
  • HG1811-2351 Special classes of banks and financial institutions
  • HG2397-3550 By region or country
  • HG3691-3769 Credit.  Debt.  Loans. Including credit institutions, credit instruments, consumer credit, bankruptcy
  • HG3810-4000 Foreign exchange.  International finance. International monetary system
  • HG4001-4285 Finance management.  Business finance. Corporation finance
  • HG4301-4480.9 Trust services.  Trust companies
  • HG4501-6051 Investment, capital formation, speculation
  • HG4530 Investment companies.  Investment trusts. Mutual funds
  • HG4538 Foreign investments
  • HG4551-4598 Stock exchanges
  • HG4621 Stockbrokers.  Security dealers.  Investment advisers
  • HG4701-4751 Government securities.  Industrial securities. Venture capital
  • HG4900-5993 By region or country
  • HG6001-6051 Speculation
  • HG6105-6270.9 Lotteries
  • HG8011-9999 Insurance
  • HG8053.5-8054.45 Insurance for professions.  Malpractice insurance.  Professional liability insurance
  • HG8059 Business insurance
  • HG8075-8107 Insurance business.  Insurance management
  • HG8111-8123 Government policy.  State supervision
  • HG8205-8220 Government insurance
  • HG8501-8745 By region or country
  • HG8751-9295 Life insurance
  • HG8779-8793 Actuarial science.  Statistical theory and methodology applied to insurance
  • HG8799-8830 By class insured, by risk, by plan
  • HG8835-8899 Life insurance business.  Management
  • HG8901-8914 Government policy.  State supervision
  • HG8941-9200.5 By region or country
  • HG9201-9245 Mutual life insurance.  Assessment life insurance.  Fraternal life insurance
  • HG9251-9262 Industrial life insurance
  • HG9271 Child insurance.  Life insurance for children
  • HG9291-9295 Maternity insurance
  • HG9301-9343 Accident insurance
  • HG9371-9399 Health insurance
  • HG9651-9899 Fire insurance
  • HG9956-9969 Casualty insurance
  • HG9969.5-9999 Other insurance. Including automobile, burglary, credit, disaster, title insurance
  • HJ9-99.8 Periodicals.  Serials.  By region or country
  • HJ210-240 History
  • HJ241-1620 By region or country
  • HJ2005-2216 Income and expenditure.  Budget  
  • ​HJ9-9940 Public finance
  • HJ2240-5908 Revenue.  Taxation.  Internal revenue
  • HJ2321-2323 Tax incidence.  Tax shifting.  Tax equity
  • HJ2326-2327 Progressive taxation
  • HJ2336-2337 Tax exemption
  • HJ2338 Taxation of government property
  • HJ2351 Inflation and taxation
  • HJ2351.4 Tax revenue estimating
  • HJ2361-3192.7 By region or country     
  • HJ3801-3844 Revenue from sources other than taxation
  • HJ3863-3925 Direct taxation
  • HJ4113-4601 Property tax
  • HJ4629-4830 Income tax
  • HJ4919-4936 Capitation.  Poll tax
  • HJ5309-5510  Administrative fees.  User charges. License fees
  • HJ6603-7390 Customs administration
  • HJ7461-7980 Expenditures.  Government spending
  • HJ8001-8899 Public debts
  • HJ8052 Sinking funds.  Amortization
  • HJ8101-8899 By region or country
  • HJ9103-9695 Local finance.  Municipal finance. Including the revenue, budget, expenditure, etc. of counties, boroughs, communes, municipalities, etc.
  • HJ9701-9940 Public accounting.  Auditing

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