INTELLECTUAL ECONOMICS 2008, Number 1(3)
REVIEW OF NEW BOOKSFINANCE AND INVESTMENTS DATABASES ON THE WEB(REVIEW OF A. BURACAS’ BOOK)
Mykolas Romeris University Publishing Centre. Vilnius. Lithuania 2008 Nr.1(3), p. 102–103
The reference book of professor Antanas Buracas
is devoted to the structural analysis of economic
and finance information resources, the main e-services
of this field on the web. More significant economic
and finance information highways on the web
also specialized retrieval systems are reviewed in
this reference book with an attempt to help better understand
the problems in the main investment, banking,
special economics and interconnected fields of
information, such as marketing, commerce, business
law, registers of occupations and real estate, intellectual
property, etc.
The economic terminology is very important in
understanding the references and services of such
databases. Most analytically developed internet retrieval
and classification systems, also their descriptors,
taxonomic principles and criteria used in the
fields of economics and finance under review are
compared in the supplements of this reference edition.
Their comparative analysis is rather important
for development of metaeconomics approaches and
possibilities of globalization, as well as in view of
growing significance of intellectual creativity within
the knowledge society. The latter is needed for the
creation of the new adequate methods and theoretical
backgrounds of economics evaluation. The main
centers of finance databases are reviewed, such as
DB of monetary policy and banking, international
money markets, commercial and investment banking,
most important exchanges and investment
funds, international insuranc, etc. The important part
of the book is devoted to the financial intermediation
and consulting databases, as well as for financial
calculators on the web, their types and functions. In
the book, intellectual property and knowledge society
databases and information services, databases of
business standards are described.
Informatikos ir statistikos katedra
Mykolo Romerio universitetas, Vilnius, Lietuva