
THE TEACHING ECONOMIST - William A. McEachern 
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Issue 17, Fall 1999
William A. McEachern, Editor
Web Pages Made Easy
A real advantage of the Internet is that a department, by relying on links to external sources, can develop a fairly sophisticated home page with not a lot of effort. The most popular external link is to Resources for Economists on the Internet (rfe.wustl.edu) edited by Bill Goffe of Southern Mississippi. Some departments offer job information for economics majors by providing a link to the National Association for Business Economists (www.nabe.com) or the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook (stats.bls.gov:80/oco/ocos055.htm). Emory University's home page has a link entitled "Why an Economics Major," which goes to a site developed by South-Western College Publishing (www.swlearning.com/economics/career_resources_degree.html). That site answers a series of questions: What is economics? Why major in economics? What jobs are available to economics majors? And how much do economists get paid?