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A common feature of the Western economies in the post-war period has been the experience of a moderate and sustained (though varying) rate of increase in overall price and wage levels. This widespread and persistent phenomenon has been aptly labelled ‘creeping inflation’, and it is this phenomenon — mainly on the wages side — with which this book is concerned.
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Burton, J. (1972). Introduction. In: Wage Inflation. Macmillan Studies in Economics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01407-1_1
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