News reports connected to your phenomenon may help you understand
On the other hand, an absence of reports might be intriguing—why is this apparently not on anyone's radar?
The economics literature (especially journal articles) might offer useful discussions of:
PowerSearch - the library's main search tool.
If you only want articles, un-tick the Library Catalog box, keep Articles+, and enter article title or keywords to search.
It has all the library's books, DVDs, etc. and also makes about articles etc. 2/3 of the library's subscribed databases available in one search tool.
But remember, it's not the only tool & some databases that feed into it may be useful to search because of specific content or added features
News Databases (Aggregators)
Individual Newspaper & Magazines
Academic Economics Literature
Your professors do NOT require this! But if you want to take a look at articles written by and for economists, explore the resources below.
General Journal Databases
The phenomenon you are trying to explain may touch on a range of disciplines. You may want to check if it has been discussed in a scholarship other than that of economics; or by an economist who also publishes in another field
Please note that this is NOT required!
The following databases search the scholarly literature more broadly.
What if an article is not available in the Library?
Use the Library's Interlibrary Loan service. The ILLiad online request form makes it easy.