Software Reviews
本栏目为经济学家提供各类计算机软件及相关材料的评论，涵盖计量、统计、优化、模拟等软件，以及电子表格、数据库、数学文字处理等工具，并介绍CD-ROM和互联网上的资源。
The purpose of the section is to provide reviews of the wide variety of computer software and related material available for use by economists. Products reviewed will include econometrics, statistical and various optimisation and stimulation packages available to economists for use in both teaching and research. From time to time overview articles related to computer software available in particular areas of economics will be published. The section will cover other functional software useful to academic economists (such as spreadsheets, database managers and mathematical wordprocessors), databases, bibliographical and other resources available in CD‐ROM and the Internet, CAL material and other software sold with textbooks. Some Software Reviews from previous volumes of this section of The Economic Journal are available in electronic form to users of the World‐Wide Web via the sosig server at the University of Bristol. The URL is http://sosig/cticce/ej_rev.htm Some Software Reviews from previous volumes of this section of...