New Releases by Robert Mitchell

This treatise argues that the quest for the spirit is not a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of basic human impulses, rooted in our biological, psychological and social nature. It presents the quest in the myths and religious practices of tribal people throughout the world.

Provides test-taking tips, practice questions, and sample tests.

Number Power Review is designed to help students brush up on basic computation and problem-solving skills--from whole numbers to beginning algebra. This book presents the core of mathematical skills considered most important in today''s changing world. These are also the skills most likely to appear on state high school competency tests, on adult high school program tests, on the GED Test, and on pre-employment tests. Because of the importance of problem solving in all areas of math, Number Power Review discusses fifteen problem-solving strategies. These strategies are designed to help build the critical thinking skills students need today.

These six books identify basic skills, critical thinking, and positive personal qualities students must have to contribute to the workforce. Two levels show students how the skills they learn in the classroom apply to workplace and life-skills competencies. Assessment programs offer additional practice through tests, answer sheets, personal profiles, and scoring guides. Math, Book Two- Using decimals, fractions, and percents, reading thermometers, rulers, scales, and gauges, interpreting graphs and data, calculating commissions and interest, determining unit prices and extended costs, and understanding schedules and budgets.

This title was formally part of the Studies in International Trade Policy Series, now called Studies in International Economics.

The purpose of our paper is to discuss and document the usefulness and limitations of existing data on international trade and investment in services. We concentrate especially on the conceptual and measurement issues involved in interpreting and trying to use the available data on international services transactions, and, in the process, identiry gaps in the data that need attention.

This chapter explores a number of conceptual and modeling issues that are germane to the analysis of conflict in international economic relations. Section II immediately following is devoted to a number of issues involving conflict that have been treated in the theory of international trade. The discussion focuses on departures from the free trade optimum that is the center piece of the theory of comparative advantage and the gains from trade. Also considered are conflict situations stemming from departures from full employment and external balance that figure importantly in internation macroeconomic theory. In Section III I draw on one of my research specialties, which is the use of computational models to analye international economic relations and policies. In particular, I disucss the design and implementation of the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade, which is a multi-country and multi-sector general equilibrium model of the international trading system that my Michigan colleague, Alan V. Deardorff, and I have been working with since the mid-1970s. Four applications of the Michigan Model are discussed in order to illustrate how the model has been used to provide quantitative analysis of potentially conflictual and cooperative international economic actions and policies.

As the world proceeds with the eighth GATT (Uruguay) round of multilateral trade negotiations, it is important to consider the potential economic effects of different negotiation options that are available to the United States and other major trading countries. In this paper, we report on a series of computational experiments involving alternative scenarios for trade liberalization, using the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade. The Michigan Model is well suited for this kind of analysis since it is a multi-country, multi-sectoral computational model covering the eighteen major developed and sixteen major developing countries and allowing for a variety of complex general equilibrium interactions, both globally and within individual countries.

Because tariffs had been reduced significantly in previous GATT negotiations, the Tokyo Round reductions, as we shall see, were bound to have a comparatively small impact. This is all the more the case when the effects induced by the US macroeconomic imbalances of the 1980s are taken into consideration. To illustrate this, we have used the Michign model to calculate the sectoral trade and employment effects of two different types of macro scenarios. The first scenario involves an assumed autonomous change in US capital inflows equal to 1 percent of US gross domestic product (GDP). This is designed to mimic the effects of a US policy of monetary contraction, which by increasing the US rate of interest relative to foreign rates, would lead to a capital inflow, a matching trade deficit, and an appreciation of the dollar. The second scenario involves an assumed exogenous increase in US aggregate expenditure equal to 1 percent of GDP, accompanied by an equal capital inflow. This is intended to reflect a US fiscal expansion, which by increasing demand for all tradable and nontradable goods, requires a shift towards foreign tradable goods in order to equilibrate markets especially for nontradable goods. The resulting increase in US imports and the trade deficit will necessitate an appreciation of the dollar.

A workbook for adult learners on graphs, tables, schedules and maps.

"Prepared at the request of the Subcommittee on International Trade, Committee on Finance, United States Senate."--T.p.