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- From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Michael Wright)
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- Subject: Re: Since no one is defending inflation, (was re: Inflation)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:13:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.182032.28056@csi.uottawa.ca> <1993Jan24.163027.3144@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan25.141513.21131@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan25.141513.21131@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- |In article <1993Jan24.163027.3144@athena.mit.edu> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
- |>In article <1993Jan23.182032.28056@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- |>>In article <1993Jan23.165450.9818@athena.mit.edu> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
- |>>>an illusion which creates a deceptive situation deserves as much
- |>>>of the blame (at least) as those it fools. even if most of the populace
- |>>>should know better, they don't -- as such, that is one drawback of
- |>>>inflation.
- |>>
- |>>After the fairly extensive amount of inflation which people have seen
- |>>particularly over the past 100 years, it is NOT likely that there are
- |>>many people who are unaware of the presence of inflation.
- |>>
- |>>It's difficult to decieve people who ARE aware that inflation exists.
- |>
- |>i disagree, though i don't think either of us can prove it. when inflation
- |>pushes both wages and prices higher, i think most people only see
- |>inflation as pushing prices higher, and that they somehow "deserve" the
- |>full amount of their wage increase.
- |
- |It's well nigh unto impossible to analyze your assertion, as it does
- |not represent the "rational expectations" that economics normally
- |assumes. Assuming "irrational expectations" allows you to assume
- |essentially anything that you want, and makes it terribly difficult to
- |come to ANY conclusions.
- |
-
- Rational Expectations are quite irrational. It is irrational to assume
- people know apriori the model and the parameters of the economy. However.
- you are correct that economics normally assumes Rational Expectations.
- However, you can get nearly any result you want with an RE model provided you
- specify the right constraints. Money illusion could be the result of
- information or contractual asymetries. It could be signaling problems
- or imperfect information if you like. Irrational expectations, such as
- bounded rationality may give you what you want: which is a theory that
- seems consistent with the economic data of high inflation and output.
- --
- "There is nothing in the marginal conditions that
- distinguish a mountain from a mole hill"
- Kenneth Boulding
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- All comments are mine---(David Wright)
- david@cats.ucsc.edu.
-