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- From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Inflation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.152354.16686@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <38019@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <df3J03pYc6aM00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Dec30.015836.12988@samba.oit.unc.edu> <38124@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:23:53 CST
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- In article <38124@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, jfh@beach.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec30.015836.12988@samba.oit.unc.edu> Robert.Vienneau@launchpad.unc.edu (Robert Vienneau) writes:
- >
- > >The purpose of pointing out the above is to show that the experts
- > >disagree on practically everything about inflation. So we have lots of
- > >theories to choose from. I personally prefer Post-Keynesianism.
- > >
- > > Robert Vienneau
- >
- > I refer readers again to the CPI for the past two centuries. The general
- > rise in prices of all goods and services is attributed to an increase in
- > the money supply (the original meaning of inflation.) Notice that
- > prices jump during the war of 1812, when the BUS printed money to help
- > finance the war. Notice that prices jump after 1860, when the U.S. govt
- > issued $400 million in fiat moeny (greenbacks). Notice that the price
- > level takes off after 1913, when the inflationary Federal Reserve system
- > was installed, and with the exception of the Great depression, prices have
- > risen steadily since, really taking off after 1971, when the U.S. abandoned
- > the international gold standard (this was the cause of the inflation of the
- > 70's--not oil shocks, etc.)
-
- I agree.
-
- > I don't know much about Post-Keynesianism, but if it resembles Keynesiansm
- > at all I would tend to discard it.
-
- From "Free to Choose" by Milton & Rose Friedman, p257:
-
- You can see why John Maynard Keynes, in discussing the inflations after
- World War I, wrote: "There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning
- the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process
- engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction,
- and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
- (John Maynard Keynes, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace",(1920) p 236)
-
- > I personally prefer the Austrian school of Economics as espoused by
- > von Mises, von Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard, George Reisman,
- > etc.
-
- I don't see how their views differ with Keynes. Could you elaborate?
-
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