RJA #9: Evaluation of Sources

Housing Boom and Bust-Book Source
Author: Thomas Sowell Publisher: Basic Books Date: 2009
Author: Thomas Sowell, Scholar Credibility: The Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has a PH.d. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His book is published by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books group.

Who's to Blame: Washington or Wall street?- Periodical
Website: http://www.newsweek.com/id/190342 Published Mar 21, 2009
I know that Newsweek is a credible magazine, and I know that this is there correct website. Also this is credible because it is a debate with two sides, and it is not biased.

Website: http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/073/housing.html
Source: Internet Author: Peggy J. Crawford, PhD, and Terry Young, PhD
Credibility: I think this is really credible, because it is from Pepperdine University and it is a business report. They both have PH.d's and they have a lot of citations for this article.

Website: http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol3/iss4/art1/
Source: Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Berkley Press, the new standard in scholarly publishing
Citation: Baker, Dean (2006) "The Menace of an Unchecked Housing Bubble," The Economists' Voice: Vol. 3 : Iss. 4, Article 1.

Periodical: Science Direct
This is an article that is from the Auraria Library and it also cites works and the Author.
Author: Hitoshi Saito
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., 2-1-2 Muromachi Nihombashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0022, Japan
Received 5 April 2001;
accepted 15 May 2001. ;
Available online 15 April 2003.

Periodical: Science Direct
This is also another article that is from the Auraria Library and it also cites works and the Author.
Author: Kyung-Hwan Kim
Department of Economics, Sogang University, CPO Box 1142, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Received 21 December 2003.
Available online 11 November 2004.