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There is widespread agreement that inflation is Economic Enemy Number One. It has become the top priority because of a decade of benign neglect — a period in which inflation was outranked by other priorities (Vietnam, Watergate, unemployment) or in which efforts to combat inflation were short lived (as in the Nixon wage-price controls) or a joke (Ford’s Whip Inflation Now).
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Nordhaus, W.D. (1981). Tax-Based Incomes Policies: A Better Mousetrap?. In: Claudon, M.P., Cornwall, R.R. (eds) An Incomes Policy for the United States. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8763-0_7
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