A Guide to Everyday Economic Statistics - Softcover

Clayton, Gary E; Giesbrecht, Martin Gerhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072873299 ISBN 13: 9780072873290

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003

Synopsis

This brief and inexpensive paperback examines 40+ economic statistics such as GDP, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, consumer confidence, personal income, etc., from public and private sources such as the Bureaus of Economic Analysis, Labor Statistics, Census, and The Conference Board. It assumes no prior knowledge of economics and is fully updated. The Clayton book is available at a great discount when packaged with any McGraw-Hill/Irwin textbook.

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From the Publisher

Totally updated: contains all the latest economic data through the first quarter of 2000, including the December 1999 comprehensive (benchmark) revisions of the national income and product accounts which affect data back to 1959.
Web Links: the book contains relevant web sites that provide links to background readings and source data for every statistic in the text; outstanding aid for further student research.
New topics: The Fed's Beige Book, informal 'new jobs created' statistic, appendix describing the Current Population Survey and Establishment Survey, brief glossary covering technical terms used by the Bureaus of Census, Labor Statistics, and Economic Analysis.
Combines sources and data with interpretation, understanding, and analysis.
Provides a common-sense 'framework of reference' for understanding, using, and interpreting the basic economic statistics we encounter in our daily lives.
Extensive graphical presentation of statistical series; coverage from 1959 to 2000-I.
Prior knowledge of economics not necessary. Appropriate for all introductory courses.

About the Author

Gary E. Clayton is Professor and former Chair of the Economics & Finance Department at Northern Kentucky University. His Ph.D. in economics is from the University of Utah and he is the only American with an Honorary Doctorate from the People's Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) in Moscow. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs and for two years was a regular guest commentator on economic statistics for NPR's Marketplace. In addition to his other writings and newspaper commentary, he has published five textbooks in the middle school, high school and college markets, including the best-selling Understanding Economics with McGraw-Hill Education. Professor Clayton's web portal, www.EconSources.com, was described as "among the most useful [sites] on the web" by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Ledger.
Dr. Clayton has taught international business and economics to students in London, Austria, and Australia. He is interested in the economic advancement of developing nations and in 2006 helped organize a micro loan project in Uganda. He is a year 2000 Freedoms Foundation Leavey Award winner for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, an Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO) national Consumer Education Award winner, and the recipient of a national teaching award from the National Council on Economic Education. In 2005 Dr. Clayton was the recipient of Northern Kentucky University's Frank Sinton Milburn Outstanding Professor Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072873299
• ISBN 13: 9780072873290
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 192