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05/07/2025 Mises Wire Joe Chavez

The conventional definition of inflation—as a sustained rise in the general price level, tracked through metrics like the Consumer Price Index—dominates economic discourse, reducing human behavior to...

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Inflation: Looking Beyond Aggregates

05/27/2025 Joe Chavez

Mainstream economists define inflation as the increase in an imaginary “price level” that is relatively neutral in its effects. Austrian economists, however, know better, as they realize that the effects of inflating the money supply are anything but neutral.

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