A Fiscal Approach to Inflation and Growth


 

Publication Date: April 1980

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Eugene J. McAllister

Research Area: Economics

Keywords: Economy

Type: Report

Abstract:

The virulence of inflation cannot be measured solely by changes in the consumer price index or tightened family budgets. A subtle and more pernicious cost is the distortion which rising prices introduce into economic behavior.