And since any inflation, however modest at first, can help employment only so long as it accelerates, adopted as a means of reducing unemployment, it will do so for any length of time only while it accelerates. "Mild" steady inflation cannot help—it can lead only to outright inflation. That inflation at a constant rate soon ceases to have any stimulating effect, and in the end merely leaves us with a backlog of delayed adaptations, is the conclusive argument against the "mild" inflation represented as beneficial even in standard economics textbooks.


1980s Unemployment and the Unions: Essays on the Impotent Price Structure of Britain and Monopoly in the Labour Market 1984

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And since any inflation, however modest at first, can help employment only so long as it accelerates, adopted as a means of reducing unemployment, it ...

And since any inflation, however modest at first, can help employment only so long as it accelerates, adopted as a means of reducing unemployment, it ...

And since any inflation, however modest at first, can help employment only so long as it accelerates, adopted as a means of reducing unemployment, it ...

And since any inflation, however modest at first, can help employment only so long as it accelerates, adopted as a means of reducing unemployment, it ...