Includes entries on economic terms and American economists as well as significant acts of Congress and legal decisions that have influenced the economy in the United States...

Contains articles on many aspects of economics, from basic concepts to taxes, money, and banking...

Contains "high quality reference articles" which have been "written by experts, screened by a group of authorities, and carefully edited...

Contains around 450 scholarly entries on the overlapping field of study that includes both politics and economics...

Contains articles that provide "a mix of basic and practical information on economics, personal money management, and starting a business...

Contains "1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more...

Contains more than 2000 articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences...

Contains brief "entries on inventors, theoreticians, and industry leaders...

Contains "900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries...

"Coverage includes the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory; nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy, management and business, human geography, politics, sociology; law, psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense...

Contains extensive, cross-referenced entries covering the whole range of the social sciences...