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- From: ssoar@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Steven E Soar)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: inflation vs employment
- Keywords: how to choose?`
- Message-ID: <8500@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:24:59 GMT
- References: <8432@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <1993Jan27.012604.26172@cs.brown.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan27.012604.26172@cs.brown.edu>, pcm@cs.brown.edu (Peter C. McCluskey) writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- > >> Peter McCluskey >> pcm@cs.brown.edu >> Reunite Gondwanaland!
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Then it is merely coincidence that every time that we have one of those
- "recession" things where a bunch of people get thrown out of work, the
- inflation rate goes down, and when they go back to work it goes back up??
-
- Seriously I'd appreciate a reference to a book where this is described. Your
- hangover anecdote, while cute, doesn't explain the mechanics very well.
-
- steve soar
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