Overview of agricultural and applied economics
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Economics and Business encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Economics and Business Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across nine subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 30,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on a broad spectrum of the social sciences, including the arts, economics, psychology, psychiatry, and religion.
National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) from USDA
National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) from USDA
NASS allows searching and browsing of reports and data sets compiled by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Reports cover virtually every facet of U.S. agriculture—production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, and other aspects of the farm industry. Data sets are commodity specific and contains many category breakdowns including U.S., state, and county crop and livestock data. Full-text reports available in PDF and text. Reports 1900s-present; data sets 1866-present.
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