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- From: jfh@beach.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky)
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- Subject: Re: Inflation (was Re: GM Plant Closures Again? Won't Solve the Economic Problems
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 22:16:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.015836.12988@samba.oit.unc.edu> Robert.Vienneau@launchpad.unc.edu (Robert Vienneau) writes:
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- >The purpose of pointing out the above is to show that the experts
- >disagree on practically everything about inflation. So we have lots of
- >theories to choose from. I personally prefer Post-Keynesianism.
- >
- > Robert Vienneau
-
- I refer readers again to the CPI for the past two centuries. The general
- rise in prices of all goods and services is attributed to an increase in
- the money supply (the original meaning of inflation.) Notice that
- prices jump during the war of 1812, when the BUS printed money to help
- finance the war. Notice that prices jump after 1860, when the U.S. govt
- issued $400 million in fiat moeny (greenbacks). Notice that the price
- level takes off after 1913, when the inflationary Federal Reserve system
- was installed, and with the exception of the Great depression, prices have
- risen steadily since, really taking off after 1971, when the U.S. abandoned
- the international gold standard (this was the cause of the inflation of the
- 70's--not oil shocks, etc.)
-
- I don't know much about Post-Keynesianism, but if it resembles Keynesiansm
- at all I would tend to discard it.
-
- I personally prefer the Austrian school of Economics as espoused by
- von Mises, von Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard, George Reisman,
- etc.
-
- Jim Hranicky (jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu)
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