A description, examples, and reasons for cost-push inflation. Graphs are also provided to help explain this concept.

A description, examples, and reasons for cost-push inflation. Graphs are also provided to help explain this concept.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Discuss why and how inflation expectations are measured, Analyze the impacts of fiscal policy and monetary policy on aggregate supply and aggregate demand. Explain the...

This investigation helps students clarify economic performance measures. These include: percentage changes in the Gross Domestic Product or the Consumer Price Index, how the labor force is measured, the meaning of employment and...

Original document, 1942. Roosevelt places in effect emergency orders to control prices, inflation and domestic economics during war time.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the Phillips curve, noting its impact on the theories of Keynesian economics; graph a Phillips curve; Identify factors that cause the instability of the Phillips...

In book 3 of the Building Your Future series, students and teachers work on the concept of investing, including stock and bonds, mutual funds, risk and diversification, and inflation, through a combination of information and practice.

A micro and macroeconomics course for 21st century learners. 28 half-hour videos sessions with text and guides regarding markets, firms, supply and demand, perfect competition and inelastic demand, economic efficiency, monopolies,...

Use this calculator to find the equivalent buying power over time for an amount in US dollars.

How is inflation measured? What is the consumer price index?.

This site provides great discussion of the causes and effects of the German Hyperinflation of 1923.

Provides a consumer price index (CPI) calculator. Enter in a dollar and year and it will tell you how much it is worth today. Also includes good links to additional CPI information resources, and a link to a mobile app.

How do we adjust for inflation?. It includes review questions and problems.

Practice what you've learned about how to calculate the consumer price index and the rate of inflation, as well as the limitations of the CPI in this exercise.

The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in circulation. But who makes that decision, and how does their choice affect the economy at large? Doug Levinson takes a trip into the United States Federal Reserve,...

Although this site talks about Massachusetts Treasury Certificates, it gives the student a good explanation of wartime inflation during and after the Revolutionary War.

Students investigate the worth of a (US) dollar or a (British) pound, the relative value, purchasing power, and inflation rates. The resource consists of explanations, calculators, measures of worth, and data sets.

This article examines the problem for the central bank of Mexico as it deals with rising inflation.

This CNN article, "Yeltsin, Economy, Both Trying to Recover," discusses the forced changes in Russia, tax troubles, corruption, inflation, and more.

The purpose of this activity is to use scaling in order to give students an idea of the size of Mars in relation to the Earth and the Moon as well as the distance between them. The students will have to calculate dimensions of the scaled...

This activity explores the relationship of unemployment to inflation in the 1960s and after. Learners will discover the short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment when unemployment is less than its natural rate. Students will...

In this activity, students examine the long term effects of inflation. They compute the increase in cost price due to compounding of inflation rates every year. They recognize that this increase in cost price is exponential.

A complete overview from DePaul University of the consumer price index and inflation. Gives an overview of the concept of inflation, how to compute the CPI, some problems with the CPI, and much more. Also provides some exercises for...

In this classroom activity, "output" cards and "spending" cards are placed on a string. As each increase or decrease, the economy faces more unemployment or inflation. A good visual device to study the relationships among output,...