Showcase students’ research and earning about any state with these fresh and fun projects, such as State Outline Map Art, Famous People Spinners, 3-D Population Graphs, and lots more. This unique resource includes everything you need: reproducible templates, step-by-step directions, and student samples. For use with Grades 4-8.

The true account of the making of the film "Popeye" starring Robin Williams and directed by Robert Altman. The movie is nowhere near as bad as you may have heard and the book is fun if you are into "behind the scenes" stories. Over 200 photos.

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Product Description: A guide to banking and finance. This edition provides coverage of topics such as financial theory, central bank independence, the effect of credit availability on monetary policy, recent developments in macroeconomics, and the international monetary system.

This engaging and intelligent book provides an accessible, down to earth assessment of the role of formalism and rigour in economics.Professor Mayer argues that there is room in economics for both highly formalized theory and for the less formal theory that predominates in the natural sciences. But economists generally fail to distinguish between these two types of theory. As a result, they often act as if the strength of an argument depends on the strength of its strongest link. They misallocate effort, polishing those parts of the argument that tend to be formalized, while paying insufficient attention to the others. Drawing on public choice theory, Mayer shows how this emphasis on the strongest link has distorted research particularly in new classical theory. He advocates stricter econometric testing, showing that many procedures currently used are only soft tests.

This collection of essays examines the institutional framework in which monetary policy is made. The essays consider two questions: How free is the Fed to set monetary policy and to what extent do organizational problems affect the choice of that monetary policy? Topics covered include the Fed's response to movements on its goals, Congressional and presidential pressures on the Fed, the existence of political business cycles operating through monetary policy, and the extent to which monetary policy may be explained by the Fed's own interests. A final section examines the claim that the Federal Reserve follows countercyclical policy and evaluates its performance as a lender to banks both in normal times and as a lender of last resort. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text consists of the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Trento, Italy, in 1990. The topics discussed include the Italian position on the creation of a European bank, international finance and an econometric study of the demand for money in Italy.

Product Description: Monetary policy -- United States. United States -- Economic policy. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)