There is more to the internet than "Google". There are a number of economic journal databases, as well as websites that will provide you with free access to economic journals and working papers that have been published in the past 10 - 15 years.

Important: Should you in any way use information from any of these articles, please be sure to reference your source in order to avoid plagiarism. For information on correct referencing methodologies please visit the Guidelines section. Under no circumstances will plagiarism be tolerated and any entries displaying plagiarism will be immediately disqualified.

GENERAL SITES

• REPEC is a searchable database that gives you access to journal articles and working papers, mostly free of charge. These articles are sourced from the IMF, universities and economic think tanks. Type key words into the search function and it will bring up a list of relevant articles. The abstract of each article is provided. Read the abstract and decide whether it will be relevant to your research. If you want to download it, click on the article and on the following page click on "download this article".Click here to go to the site http://ideas.repec.org

• The National Bureau of Economic Research provides free access to the latest research by many American universities. The website is updated every week and you can subscribe free of charge to their mailing list. This will help keep you up to date with the latest research. The website also has a search facility which will enable you to search their database. Type in key words and when it delivers the results, go to Publications. Click here to go to the site http://www.nber.org

 

• The International Monetary Fund provides a range of topical economic research, from inflation targeting and exchange rates to competitiveness and much more.  Go to Publications and then search for articles by key words. Click here to go to the site http://www.imf.org

 

 POSTGRADUATE LINKS

 From an Adjudicator’s perspective, the first thing a candidate can do to improve their chances of getting through is to do some original data analysis; as a bare minimum they should include their own graphs that are up to date.  (It’s very off-putting to see a student copy/pasting a graph that is only up to 2006 and then drawing conclusions based on historical data).

The Adjudicators feel that students who have reached Postgraduate level have already established useful internet links for their reference and therefore these students are encouraged to carry out their own, independent research in compiling their entries.

 

UNDERGRADUATE LINKS

The key to writing this essay will be backing up your theoretical argument - to do well in this competition you need to do more than simply list a set of arguments that you've read in the newspaper or in a journal article.

 

You can decide whether you want to argue for or against the idea of nationalisation or provide both sides of the argument, but you need to back up what you say either by referencing empirical evidence or by discussing a practical example, for example Venezuela's experience with nationalisation.



Therefore,if you say nationalised companies are less efficient and therefore produce less then other companies, then you will need to back this up by, for example, saying that oil production from Venezuela's nationalised oil industry has fallen by 50% over the past decade.

 

Finally you may not have much success if you search for "nationalisation" as it has not been widely used in academic literature for some tim. Therefore students might find it more useful to do searches on alternate keywords like "government ownership" and perhaps consider some of the literature related to the recent government bailouts of the bank and motor vehicle industries.

 

The case for an against nationalisation
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-09-21-the-case-for-nationalisation-of-mineral-resources

 

The economics of nationalisation
http://tutor2u.net/economics/presentations/a2economics/micro/Nationalisation/handout.pdf

 

Truth and fiction in that nationalisation versus privatisation debate
http://www.iassa.co.za/articles/033_sum1990_10.pdf

 

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization

 

COSATU policy document:
http://www.cosatu.org.za/docs/discussion/2010/cosatubooklet.pdf

 

The New Growth Path
http://www.info.gov.za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=135748


Important: Should you in any way use information from any of these articles, please be sure to reference your source in order to avoid plagiarism. For information on correct referencing methodologies please visit the Guidelines section.