Useful Websites

Librarians Online
1. Go to MCCCD Library Information System (http://library.maricopa.edu)
or to your local college library website
(http://www.dist.maricopa.edu/lts/AboutTheLibrary.html)
2. Click the Ask a Librarian tab in the Library Information System or
the appropriate link on your college library website.
 

A Must Read on the Value of Money

This article will be useful when you are looking at money and inflation
 
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1595

World Trade

This is an interactive web site designed to demonstrate changes in worldtrade equilibrium
 
http://nova.umuc.edu/~black/tramod100.html
 
Alan Greenspan
http://minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/index.cfm
 

Can you solve this?

If you solve this problem, and respond to the person, then write up the
problem to me including, 
 
question
response
sources
exchange rates
inflation rates.
 
http://www.norwayheritage.com/snitz/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1092

Oil Crisis or Mini Crisis?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/oil/
 

Price Levels and Inflation Comparison

http://www.nsi.bg/Gdp_e/ECP03_T3.htm

Check Your Understanding of the Price Level

You should be able to get the same answer as they did
 
http://www.newbaybridge.org/medianews/2004_11_28_oaktrib_original.html 
 
(that is the 105 dollars per day)
 
using the following information, and the CPI's listed for the respective years.
 
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Consumer_Price_Index/HistoricalCPI.aspx?rsCPI_currentPage=5

 
Country Comparison
if you would like to compare things like foreign investment, gdp, gdp
growth, inflation, poverty, literacy etc for different countries, this
is a great website
 
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp

Can’t figure out GDP Growth?

If you would like to compare things like foreign investment, gdp, gdp
growth, inflation, poverty, literacy etc for different countries, this
is a great website
 
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp
 
 

Tragedy of the Commons

This is a great example of what happens when two people are using the same resource and how the ‘tragedy’ can be resolved

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/rubinfeldd/LS145/Spur.html

A Different Point of View

This is the author that I used to use. The book has excellent perspectives on many of the chapters you are reading. Have a look at the exercises and the PowerPoints. The slides have great diagrams that explain the functions of the economy in a way that words can not.

http://college.hmco.com/economics/boyes/economics/6e/complete/students/index.html