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Michael K. Salemi, professor of economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explores money as a social contract as well as such topics as inflation and hyperinflation, financial institutions, stocks, bonds and derivative securities and central banks, exchange rates and monetary policy coordination among developed nations.
'Teaching economics is the most important job that economists do. Thus it is nice to see a book devoted to teaching written by two economists who have played an important role in advancing the teaching of economics throughout the profession.' - David Colander, Journal of Economic Methodology
This text presents findings from a six-year National Science Foundation-funded project to encourage interactive teaching in undergraduate economics courses. It describes the outcomes on teaching workshops for economics instructors, follow-on modules for applying these strategies, & opportunities to contribute to the scholarship of teaching.
Since its establishment in the 1950s the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education has sought to promote improved instruction in economics and to facilitate this objective by stimulating research on the teaching of economics. These efforts are most apparent in the sessions on economic education that the Committee organizes at the Association's annual meetings. At these sessions economists interested in economic education have opportunities to present new ideas on teaching and research and also to report the findings of their research. The record of this activity can be found in the Proceedings of the American Eco nomic Review. The Committee on Economic Education and its...
Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses, and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The political system has helped to entrench a mistaken consensus that social spending is a threat to financial stability and economic prosperity. In this trenchant attack on government mismanagement, Leo Goodstadt traces how officials have created a ‘new poverty’ in Hong Kong and argues that their misgu...
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ÔThe International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is a power packed resource for anyone interested in investing time into the effective improvement of their personal teaching methods, and for those who desire to teach students how to think like an economist. It sets guidelines for the successful integration of economics into a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional settings in college and graduate courses with some attention paid to primary and secondary classrooms. . . The International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is highly recommended for all economics instructors and individuals supporting economic education in courses in and outside of the major. Th...
This volume, presenting some of the finest new research on exchange rates and international macroeconomics, contains papers and critical commentary by thirty-two leading economists. Taken together, these papers provide sound evidence about the effects of real and monetary factors on exchange rates and extend the analyses of exchange rates and international macroeconomics by outlining the kinds of behavior and institutional arrangements that can be incorporated into such analyses. Both empirical and theoretical research are represented, and the contributors analyze such issues as the performance of various models of exchange rate determination, the role of risk and speculation in the forward market for foreign exchange, the rational expectations hypothesis in such markets, the performance of monetary policy in ten industrial countries, the role that labor market contracts play in exchange rate policies, the effect of he oil shocks on the evolution of exchange rates, and the output cost of bringing down inflation in the open economy.
Conference report on the history of inflation and economic reconstruction in Europe, 1914-1924 - concentrates on events in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, UK and the role of USA; includes chapters on stabilization processes, fiscal policies, monetary policies and income distribution; examines the economic role of banks and of trade; analyzes economic recession and social conflicts related to strikes, lockouts and hours of work. Graphs, references, statistical tables. Conference held in Berkeley 1982 Jul 26 to Aug 6.