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INTERNET RESOURCES:
Chapter 24: The Monetary System and
Inflation
Web assignments:
- Money in North American
History
- Continental Currency
- Monetary Policy and Inflation
Web materials related to topics discussed in Chapter 24
- Central
Banking Resource Center
- Links to the home pages of central banks.
- Consumer
Price Index Conversion Tables (provided by Robert
Sahr)
- A listing of conversion factors needed to convert
prices from any year between 1800 and 1996 into 1996
dollars.
- Consumer
Price Index Home Page
- This page, provided by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, provides information about the construction
of the CPI.
- Federal
Reserve Banks
- Links to Federal Reserve District Banks and to the
Board of Governors.
- The
Inflation Calculator (by S. Morgan Friedman)
- This online inflation calculator converts nominal
prices from any year between 1800 and 1995 into a price
measured in terms of any base year (in this same time
period). All conversions are based on CPI data.
- Inflation
Calculator (NASA)
- This Java Script based calculator uses the implicit
GDP deflator to perform conversions from nominal prices
to real prices (for any year between 1940 and the present
-- in fact, estimated values of the implicit GDP deflator
can be used to convert prices up until the year 2002).
The use of this site, however, requires a JavaScript
enabled browser.
- A
History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present
Day
- This site, a companion to Glyn Davies book, A
History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present
Day, provides an interesting overview of the
evolution of money and banking.
Related resources:
- Other economic resources
- This page contains a set of links to economic
resources that may be of interest to introductory
economics students.
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