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- From: kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers)
- Subject: Re: Inflation
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:58:12 GMT
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- In article <2168@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
- %
- %You say that inflation is "100% a monetary phenomoenae".
- %However, inflation may occur with an economy which has no money.
- %How can inflation be purely a "mopn[D"monetary" thing?
- %
- Academically, inflation is nothing other than the avg. price level rising.
- Sure, you can have other economic systems in place (informal economy, bartering,
- underground economic systems, etc), but inflation is (to the best of my knowledge
- and a few other people I know who know a helluva lot more than I do) always
- measured by the currency of the country in which the inflation index (CPI-U, CPI-W, etc.)
- is being measured.
-
- BTW-
- Usually those "other" economic systems (bartering and the like) occur at, and
- after the threshold when a currency starts feeling either "galloping" ( double-digit
- annually), or "hyper" (>50% per month) inflationary behavior... People just don't
- trust it.
-
- %(I'll pass on the textbooks- I already know all I need to about
- %inflation, and besides, I have plenty of economics texts already!)
-
- ...A wise man.
-
- --
- Kevin Carothers {psivax,philabs,retix,quad1}!ttidca!kevin
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