RJA #7a: Evaluation of Sources

Book:
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
The authors of this book are the senators in the commission by the same name. This suggests credibility in my opinion. It is a recent work, just being released in January 2011. This book is one that I think will prove to be the most informative of all of my sources. What better of a source to have than the congressional committee that has spent the last year researching my topic? I think that the audience of this work includes both the specialists and a popular audience. 




Periodical:
The US financial crisis: lessons for theories of institutional complementarity
This article was published by the Oxford University press by the author John Campbell. This author has written many peer reviewed articles that appear in reputable journals, such as the American Journal of Sociology, British medical journal, and the British Journal of Sociology,  and offer a wide range of topics, such as economics, globalization, and health care.  The article is meant to be used as institutional analysis. The issue of the Socio-economic Review in which this particular article is contained was published on January 22, 2011.  


Website:
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Official website
This website is supported by Stanford University, and has many resources available, such as a full resource library and a hearings and testimony section. The site seems very well maintained, and has an informative interactive graphic in the header. You can adjust the graph you want to see, including indicators such as the unemployment rate and the Dow Industrial Average, and the time frame goes back 50 years. You can even download a PDF version of the full report for free on this website (of course I found this out only after I bought the kindle edition for my iPad). I think that the purpose of this website is to educate the country about the financial crisis and how to avoid anything like that happening again. I think that this is a valuable website.