What You Should Know about Inflation What You Should Know about Inflation

What You Should Know about Inflation

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The book's title — What You Should Know About Inflation — only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies of government management. He takes on not only the Keynesians but also the monetarists, as well as anyone who believes that government debt accumulation and manipulation of interest rates are harmless. So this book is about far more than inflation. He touches on a wide variety of macroeconomic topics, any area of economic policy that is related to the monetary regime, including budget and trade issues, as well has the economic history of inflation.

Neither does he neglect the moral cost of inflation, saying in one passage,

“It is not merely that inflation breeds dishonesty in a nation. Inflation is itself a dishonest act on the part of government, and sets the example for private citizens. When modern governments inflate by increasing the paper-money supply, directly or indirectly, they do in principle what kings once did when they clipped coins. Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water. Notwithstanding all the pious pretenses of governments that inflation is some evil visitation from without, inflation is practically always the result of deliberate governmental policy.”

Particularly interesting is the final section of the book in which Hazlitt critiques various proposals for monetary reform and then presents his view.

What is Hazlitt's own idea for monetary reform? He wants competitive monies, which he believes will be based in precious metal. He doesn't demand that governments get out of the monetary business altogether but merely that government permit everyone to choose to use any money and make any form of contract.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
1965
January 6
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
152
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ludwig von Mises Institute
SELLER
Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics
SIZE
779.8
KB
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