Some links related to my interests:
CHOICE THEORY AND MICROECONOMICS
The Schools of Thought section of the History of
Economic Thought website
is a wonderful place to waste time and feel like you're working.
A great graduate+ level introduction to microeconomics can be found in
Robert Nau’s
lecture notes for his Ph.D. Seminar on Choice
Theory.
Frank P. Ramsey is one of my favorite thinkers. You can hear a BBC radio program
on Ramsey by Hugh Mellor.
MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
The Equality
Exchange is a fantastic source of philosophical (and
occasionally economic)
papers on equality.
British
Society for Ethical Theory
Society
for Applied Philosophy
Laurence Hinman’s Ethics Update
webpage is the best source for ethics on the web
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is
also very useful
Related to questions about socialism (see below), I’ve also become interested in
debates
on left-libertarianism, specifically on
property rights and the question of how to
fairly divide gains from cooperation.
I’ve begun using aspects of Sen’s capability approach in
my work
WELFARE ECONOMICS, POLITICAL ECONOMY, PUBLIC CHOICE
Good for working papers and the like is the James
Buchanan Center for Political Economy
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics has a
good entry on public choice and other topics
I am increasingly interested in the debate over the foundations of the new welfare economics
I've also become interested in the related socialist calculation debate. A 9 volume book set has
recently come out on this topic.
BEHAVIORAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS
Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics
The Economic Science Association is the
international society for experimental economics.
Al Roth’s Game Theory and Experimental Economics
page has long been a focal point for web work in these areas.
The Institute for Empirical Economic Research
at the
The Russell Sage Foundation has sponsored a Behavioral Economics Roundtable that has
produced many interesting publications
See also the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics
at Nottingham
SOCIOLOGY
My D.Phil. is being completed in sociology at Oxford
The Rational Choice Section of the American
Sociological Association promotes rational choice in sociology
SOCIAL POLICY
The Labour government’s Social Exclusion Unit
is a very good site
The ESRC has just launched a site
which has a large collection of data sets on social indicators
See also the LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of
Social Exclusion