The Causes, Costs and Compensations of Inflation

William Coleman ()

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Abstract: This book explores the causes, costs and benefits of inflation. It argues that while the cause of inflation is essentially monetary, the costs and benefits of inflation lie in inflation’s distortion of the economy's responses to real shocks.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781845424848
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 A Statement of the Problem

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Ch 2 The Theory of the Demand for Money

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Ch 3 A Theory of the Supply of Money

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Ch 4 The Quantity Theory of Money

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Ch 5 Inflation Without a Quantity of Money: The Wicksellian Approach

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Ch 6 Technological Risk and the Social Function of Real Debt

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Ch 7 Monetary Risk and the Social Function of Money Debt

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Ch 8 The Quantity Theory in a Risky World

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Ch 9 Wicksellianism in a Risky World

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Ch 10 The Cost of Inflation as the Cost of Moneylessness

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Ch 11 The Cost of Inflation as the Cost of Creditlessness

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Ch 12 A Summarization of Results

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