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Friedman's model is now considered false, or at least only very conditional. It fits only certain economies. Is Inflation Always and Everywhere a Monetary Phen
by nabla9 5y ago
Friedman's model is now considered false, or at least only very conditional. It fits only certain economies.
Is Inflation Always and Everywhere a Monetary Phenomenon?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3441104 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3441104
>The relation between long-run inflation and the money growth rate is not proportional. The strong link between inflation and money growth is almost wholly due to the presence of high- (or hyper-) inflation countries in the sample. The relationship between inflation and money growth for low-inflation countries (on average less than 10% per annum over the last 30 years) is weak.
- __blockcipher__ 5y agoThe part you quoted doesn’t seem to address the output half of Friedman’s statement, repeated here for convenience: > can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output