INTERMEDIATE

Inflation

Always and Everywhere a Monetary Phenomena

In this module, you will learn that inflation is more than just higher prices and how it affects your daily life.

What is inflation?

Traditionally, inflation referred to an increase in the amount of money in circulation. Many modern economists have adopted a definition that refers to rising prices, a common effect of an increase in the money supply. Some economists will use the terms monetary inflation and price inflation to avoid this confusion of definition.

Steve Horwitz on inflation:

 

Lawrence Reed on inflation in Bolivia:

 

A full-length lecture on Money and Inflation by Lawrence Reed:

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From natural systems to human systems, we start to notice patterns in nature that are products of good flow. Adrian Bejan discusses this crucial insight--and how it makes freedom even more needful--in this month's interview. Zachary Caceres looks at what emergence can tell us about the universe, the market, the heart, and the sacred; Mike Reid recounts the tragedies produced when the State tries to impose its order on people who have already developed their own; Gary Galles channels Leonard Read: the State is a clenched fist, he says, so it cannot create; Brad Taylor says democracy might just be another imposed order in some situations; Karl Borden wonders whether an individual's right to be left alone can be part of the order of things; and much, much more.Download Free PDF

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