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- From: pcm@cs.brown.edu (Peter C. McCluskey)
- Subject: Re: inflation vs employment
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.012604.26172@cs.brown.edu>
- Keywords: how to choose?`
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- References: <8432@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:26:04 GMT
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- In article <8432@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>, ssoar@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Steven E Soar) writes:
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- |> Here's an issue that I don`t see being discussed but seems pertinent to the
- |> state of our economy today: the proper balance between inflation and
- |> employment.
- |>
- |> Economics seems dominated by two major philisophical camps with different
- |> emphases and predictive powers but diametrically opposed outputs.
- |>
- |> In one camp we find the Keynesians, who can reiliably stimulate growth, but at
- |> the added expense of inflation. Inflation is inefficient because at higher
- |> levels, it confuses future price/cost levels in the market.
- |>
- |> In the other camp we find non-Keynesians (Austrians, monetarists,
- |> supply-siders) who can who can reliably control inflation, but at a huge
- |> expense of unemployment. I believe that Blinder comments that if we ran the
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- The claim that reducing inflation causes unemployment is a myth which
- only the Keynesians still believe. A reduction in inflation influences
- the timing of changes in unemployment in much the same way as when you
- stop drinking alcohol influences when you will get a hangover, without
- being the cause of the hangover.
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