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- From: jfh@beach.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Inflation
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:42:17 GMT
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- In article <2168@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
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- >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?
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- There are two ways to cause a rise in prices. One is to shrink supply
- in relation to demand (or increase demand in relation to supply.) This
- will cause a rise in prices in those areas of the economy where goods
- and services have become more dear. This can happen in both types
- of economies. You will only experience a rise in prices in all areas
- as a result of some sort of disaster.
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- The other way to cause a rise in prices is to increase the supply
- of money. This will cause a rise in prices in *all* areas of the
- economy, even though the goods and services have not suddenly become
- dearer. What is happening, essentially, is that with the increased
- demand provided by the "free" money, goods and services can now be
- bought faster than they are being produced. Since prices attempt to
- balance supply and demand, the prices will begin to rise, and production
- will attempt to expand in these areas. When the inflation stops, however,
- (i.e., the govt quits printing money), the consumers will revert back
- to their old time preferences, and these areas wich have expanded will
- no longer be deemed necessary by the consumers. They wil go under,
- and this is the beginning of the recession.
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- Inflation also causes interest rates to drop, which means that capital
- is being loaned out too quickly. Eventually, interest rates must go
- up again to make up for the artificial demand for loans. In some
- cases, a high inflation may be accompanied by high interest rates, as
- evidenced by the recessions of the 70's.
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- Jim Hranicky (jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu)
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