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The study of macroeconomics--the determination and control of aggregative variables such as gross national product, unemployment and inflation--may be facilitated by the use of a computer simulation policy game. An aggregative model of the economy was constructed and programed for a computer and (hypothetical) historical data were generated. The data were then given to students so that they could attempt to make policy decisions which would solve problems of unemployment and inflation in the economy. Variants of the model were used in a number of ways during the past several years--for students in an introductory economics course, for an intermediate macroeconomics course, and for first-year graduate theory students. At the graduate level, a stochastic version of the model has been used with a regression package, and this modification appears to provide an ideal laboratory for the exploration of econometric problems. Most students who have been exposed to the model report that they enjoyed participating in the game and as a result became more interested in their course and that the experience had made the textbook material seem more real and more easily understood. (Author/SH)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert