Inflation and the Economy Essays -- Inflation Economy Economics Essays

Inflation and the EconomyWHY UNDER MONETARY independence INFLATION COULD BE STOPPED WITHOUT BRINGING ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT 1. Unemployment and rising prices do coexist and inflation causes much unemployment which would cease with it.2. Excessively inflated prices would fall to merchandise prices and so promote sales and employment. 3. Less government spending would mean more private spending. 4. Prices and wages could be adjusted fast. If this is not done whence this is not the effect of stopping inflation 5. Price adjustments through gold-value clearing could take place already duringa continuing paper money inflation - leaving no adjustment problem. 6. While FALLING prices do indeed deter from buying and promote unemployment, FALLEN prices do the contrary. Under monetary independence there would only be FALLEN prices.7. The un- or under-used productive capital investment would, under monetary freedom, be almost in full used and would thusly ensure that there arises or remainsno unemployment. 8. Under monetary freedom there would also be no difficulty to mobilize fully the real working capital of any country the goods and services ready for retail sale and to finance with them full employment - naturally at market wages and prices. 9. Monetary freedom would allow all desired exchanges to take place and would put Says Law, that supply tends to create equivalent demand, into practice. No sales difficulties or unemployment would result. 10.Unemployment is an unnatural condition Under monetary freedom it would no more occur than under barter. TEN WAYS HOW, INDEED, WRONG ATTEMPTS TO STOP INFLATION COULD top TO UNEMPLOYMENT - UNDER CONTINUED MONETARY DESPOTISM. 1. Stopping the note ... ...s of the free banking literature. 17. A critique of the note issue monopoly. Sorry, but 15-17 are not yet out, either. On the other hand, LMP has fiched hundreds of monetary freedom titles, including a 124pp free banking bibliography. A handbook on monetary freedom and one d ealing especially with cause and repossess for unemployment are still in the works by February 1999. John Zube, 11. 2. 1999. Note I merely scanned this text in and afterward somewhat corrected the scan and did minor editing. The scanning may still have left some mistakes I did not notice, apart from my own and usual ones. The Word 97 programme sometimes insists upon its own layout and stubbornly resists my correction attempts. Somewhat corrected and edited on 26.6.1999 & 2.7.99. BibliographyGo back to lmphomepage.htm.htm Go forward to app23-lt.htm.htm