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Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
Sunday, 26 July 2015

The F story about the Great Inflation

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Here F could stand for folk. The story that is often told by economists to their students goes as follows. After Phillips discovered his cu...
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Saturday, 28 June 2014

Understanding the New Classical revolution

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In the account of the history of macroeconomic thought I gave here , the New Classical counter revolution was both methodological and ideol...
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Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Myths and Realities of the 1970s

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I have been pondering why inflation targeting is so popular, as opposed to the more natural idea of a dual mandate. I say more natural for...
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Wednesday, 9 January 2013

The inflation dragon is just around the corner

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People who believe this are not confined to the US. In articles in the  Telegraph  and the  FT (HT Frances Coppola ), Andrew Sentance say...
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists, and covers macroeconomics but also other economic issues, political economy, the media and politics.
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