This section offers five problems to solve concerning inflation.

This section provides a list of review questions to aid in studying the content of Chapter 8: Inflation.

This section provides a list of self-check study questions covering the content of Chapter 8: Inflation.

This section offers study questions that require critical thinking skills. It covers the content of Chapter 8: Inflation.

A learning module that uses charts and information to explain how expansionary and contractionary fiscal policies shift aggregate demand and influence the economy.

This overview of the hyperinflation in Germany following World War I describes not only its causes but what daily life was like for Germans whose money had become virtually worthless.

This investigation begins with a discussion of spare change. Students are asked to compare and analyze peoples' attitudes toward coins today to those of the past. Students then complete an activity that teaches them how to compare...

This instructional activity explores different types of inflation and terms associated with this economic concept. You may have heard relatives talk about the good old days when a dollar would buy something. What happened to that dollar?...

This site describes demand-pull inflation, one of the main causes of inflation, and provides a graph that shows what occurs when aggregate demand rises.

Provides a definition of cost-push inflation as well as a graph that shows what happens to price when aggregate supply decreases.

Summarizes the theory that inflation is related to excessive monetary growth, and the origins of this theory. Links to the Quantity Theory of Money.

In this task, students explore exponential models in the context of a real-world problem. Students learn about price inflation for a single commodity and are introduced to the Consumer Price Index for measuring the inflation of a body of...

Describes the extremely high inflation that is going unchecked in Zimbabwe. Hyperinflation is beginning to take control over everything in the country and causing many problems for the people. (June 2006)

This site is a short article on inflation, but has a few prices of everyday goods from 1967 that might help in understanding inflation and how much prices have increased.

This site is really a calculator that tells you what the buying power of a given amount of money for a certain year would be in a different year.

Science Bob provides all the instructions to create a balloon inflating contraption that uses the chemical reaction of vinegar and baking soda.

The U.S. economy in the 1970s staggered and fell in the 1970s. Read about the reasons for the depressed economy marked by high inflation and high unemployment.

Read about how we can use the Keynesian perspective to think about the common tradeoff between low inflation and low unemployment.

A speech given in 1997 which evaluated the economic outlook using the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment, or NAIRU, and outlined challenges for monetary policy. (January 16, 1997)

This lesson asks students to identify sources for macroeconomic data, interpret data, describe the present state of the economy using current data, and use data to predict the state of the economy one year from now.

On January 26, 2010, the film Avatar officially topped Titanic as the top-grossing film of all-time at the box office. However, the following day, Forbes.com published an article entitled Is Avatar Really King of the Box Office? The...

A definition, examples, and causes for demand pull-inflation.

A definition, examples, and causes for demand pull-inflation.

A definition, examples, and causes for demand pull-inflation.