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- From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Inflation
- Message-ID: <2422@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 01:00:35 GMT
- References: <93Jan22.120509edt.574@neuron.ai.toronto.edu> <2385@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1993Jan23.193637.17490@athena.mit.edu>
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- Charles:
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- You say that "inflation is *defined* as an increase in prices...", but
- you didn;t answer my question regarding the measurement of prices in
- money. Why? Does it really make any more sense to say that I purchase
- an autobmobile with money, than it does to say that the auto dealer
- purchases my money with a car? We generally measure such things in
- currency, for convenience's sake, but there is no mathmatical reason
- why we must, and that is what economics boils down to: mathematics.
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