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- From: kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Sung Hyun Kim)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re:Inflation
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:53:43 -0500
- Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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- In article <1993Jan21.211300.8065@athena.mit.edu> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
- >i really don't understand what you are trying to say here.
- >inflation simply means an increase in prices. if the price of hammers
- >in terms of bananas increases, then there is "price inflation"
- >of hammers in terms of bananas. but that would only happen due to
- >market effects. and when the number of bananas needed to buy a hammer
- >increased, people would start making more hammers and growing fewer
- >bananas. eventually an equilibrium, or at least a stable cycle
- >would be reached. you wouldn't see the inflation continue endlessly.
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- Wait,wait.. You are obviously thinking in terms of MICROeconomics. I had
- a hard time in swallowing those concepts of "aggregate demand","price level"
- things since it didn't seem right when you think in terms of micro.
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- But anyway, inflation means increases in overall prices, not just one price
- in terms of others..whatever "the overall prices" means, you have to figure
- out that..but I am pretty sure that it doesn't what you are thinking.
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- Sung Hyun Kim kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu : Economics, Johns Hopkins U.
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