What is inflation? The answer seems obvious: when things get more expensive, that’s inflation, and it’s bad. But an alternative view is Milton Friedman’s. In a talk in 1963, the hugely influential economist defined inflation as “a steady and sustained rise in prices” and added that “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”.
什么是通貨膨脹?答案似乎很明顯:東西變得更貴時就是通貨膨脹,這是壞事。但米爾頓?弗里德曼(Milton Friedman)提出了另一種觀點。在1963年的一次談話中,這位極具影響力的經(jīng)濟學(xué)家將通脹定義為“價格的穩(wěn)定持續(xù)上漲”,并補充說,“通脹始終是一種貨幣現(xiàn)象,無處不在”。
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