ECON 230: Does Money Make the World Go Round? A Look at Money in Capitalism -- Course Guide: Finding Information

A coalition of progressive groups that has organized around the intersection of financial with other social policies such as income inequality and the environment. This group has a strong activist element so offers mostly journalistic level information. It may be a good place to begin to understand some of the important pieces in a policy debate.

Conducts research on ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global levels.

A Washington, DC think-tank that takes a decidedly conservative view of the economy and politics. It has a focus on law, regulation, economics, international events, and society.

A North Carolina based think-tank that has offices in a few states, California being one of them. They do policy work and research on consumer lending, payday lending, student loans, regulation, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), mortgages, race, and income inequality.

This is a governmental agency that works on laws, legal cases, and policies to produce greater access and opportunity to financial services for all.

A Washington, DC think-tank that takes a decidedly progressive view of the economy and politics. It has a focus on budget, regulation, labor, inequality, international trade, environment, health, and income disparities.

Conducts research at international development at all academic levels. See their working papers.

A Washington, DC think-tank that takes a decidedly conservative approach to politics and the economy. They focus on regulation, economics, politics, debt, gender, environment, and housing.

Think tank at Stanford specializing in economic policy and international affairs.

A policy group that seeks to produce policy and activism around equality of opportunity especially with respect to financial access.

Private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research.

A group that works through advocacy and policy making to produce better access to consumer and business financial services for redlined and under-served groups.

Nonpartisan research institution devoted to study of international economic policy.

Nonpartisan institute conducting public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

PolicyArchive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research.

Research institute focusing on financial, environmental, gender, macroeconomic, international finance/trade, and labor policies. It’s an institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and takes a progressive approach to policy making.