Peter Terrebonne, Ph.D.

• Fall Courses
• Spring Courses
• Business Degree Requirements
• Business Schools
• Georgia Statistics
• U. S. Statistics
• International Statistics
• International Organizations
• General Information
• Downloading Data into Spreadsheets

Fall Courses

Anticipated Spring Courses

Business Degree Requirements

The new business degree requirements apply to students who begin at Young Harris College in the Fall 2007 term. Students who began earlier may elect to follow the new requirements.

Links to Business Schools

• Berry College, Campbell School of Business
• Clemson University, College of Business and Behavioral Sciences
• Emory University, Goizueta Business School
• Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Management
• Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson School of Business
• Kennesaw State University, Coles College of Business
• Mercer University, Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics
• North Georgia College and State University, School of Business and Government
• Oglethorpe University, Division of Economics and Business Administration
• University of Georgia, Terry College of Business
• University of Tennessee at Knoxville, College of Business Administration

Links to Georgia Statistics

• Georgia County Guide: Georgia Statistical System, University of Georgia

• Map Data and Aerial Photography: Georgia GIS Clearinghouse, University of Georgia

Links to U. S. Statistics

• Gross Domestic Product: Bureau of Economic Analysis, U. S. Department of Commerce

• Unemployment Rate: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor

• Federal Government Budget: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President

• Money Supply and Interest Rates: Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System

• U. S. Population: U. S. Census Bureau

Links to International Statistics

• GDP 1950 - 2004 for Almost All Countries: Penn World Table

• Statistics for Developed Countries: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

• Statistics for Almost All Countries: United Nations

• World Population: United Nations Statistics Division

• World Population History: U. S. Census Bureau

Links to International Institutions

• Bank for International Settlements

• European Central Bank

• European Union

• International Monetary Fund

• World Bank

• World Trade Organization

• Millennium Development Goals

Links to General Information

Wikipedia has some excellent articles and some terrible articles.

• Wikipedia Portal for Business and Economics
• Wikipedia Index for Macroeconomics
• Wikipedia Index for Microeconomics

Economic Report of the President. This annual publication is prepared by the Presidents Council of Economic Advisors. The appendix of the Report is a reliable source for historic times series of all sorts economic statistics.

Resources for Economists on the Internet. This is a list of links at the American Economics Association website. It is comprehensive and well maintained.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The Board of Governors is an excellent source for information on money, financial markets, and monetary policy. Besides free downloads, paper copies of many Fed publications are also free. I recommend the small book The Federal Reserve Purposes and Functions for the best overview of what the Federal Reserve System is and what it does.

Downloading Data into Spreadsheets

Many data on the web can be downloaded directly into spreadsheets. This is especially helpful if you want to plot graphs, do computations, or otherwise work with data. How easy it is to download into a spreadsheet depends upon the format of the data file. Files ending in "XLS" are in Excel format and can be read by Excel as well as many other spreadsheet programs. The format "CSV" stands for "comma separated values" and is more or less the lowest common denominator that can be read by virtually all spreadsheet programs. However, extra steps are sometimes required to read "CSV" files into Excel.

If you cannot read a "CSV" file directly into Excel, do the following. In the file browser where you selected the file there is a pull-down menu that lets you select the type of file to read. Select "All Documents". (Note: selecting "All Readable Documents" probably will not work.) That might be enough to load data directly into your Excel spreadsheet, if not a "Text Import Wizard" will open asking for more information. Be sure the button "Character Delimited" is selected and then push "Next". When the next panel appears be sure the boxes for both "Tab" and "Comma" are checked, then push "Finish". The data should then appear properly in you spreadsheet.

Excel will read "HTML" tables if "All Documents" is selected in the "Open" panel. Also the "Text Import Wizard" in Excel lets you read "TXT" files and many other formats by following steps like those described in the previous paragraph. Tables in "TXT" files are often space delimited or tab delimited.