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The rise of inflation targeting.

This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States. In the gold standard era, farmers' vulnerability to falling prices made price‐level stabilization a salient political and social concern. Economists of the p...

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Published in:Southern Economic Journal Vol. 91; no. 4; pp. 1229 - 1247
Main Author: Binder, Carola
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2025
Subjects:
United States
United States. Congress
Price inflation
Trust
Political science
Economic policy
Inflation targeting
Monetary policy
Price regulation
Government accountability
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