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- From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Inflation
- Message-ID: <2401@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 14:07:31 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.211300.8065@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan22.040507.5588@csi.uottawa.ca> <1993Jan23.041808.11656@athena.mit.edu>
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- Two points:
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- 1. Curexxx "Curreny as currency" DOES indeed have value. The extremely
- persistent myth that physical, tangible goods are the only things
- which have the elusive (and quite nebulous) quality of "value" is
- simply false. It is true that money (currency), such as bills and
- coindxxx coins have little value if used for things other than
- excvhxxx exchange (although they do have some value in this sense:
- citizens of the Confederacy used to light fires with their paper
- money!), but nothing has "value" outside of the contect ofxxxxxx
- the context of a market. To believe otherwise is to never have
- abxx an answer to the Diamnd-Water Paradox.
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- 2. To some extent, interest rates drive inflation. Yes, money which
- bears interest has some of that value eroded by inflation, but the fact
- is that interest is part of what makes iunfxxx inflation happen.
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