Commentary : Monetary Policy and the Control of Inflation

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  • Martin Feldstein
چکیده

Governor Crow has given us an excellent summary of the issues and options in controlling inflation. I will focus my remarks on the application of the points that he made to the case of the Soviet Union, which I do in part because I've thought more about the Soviet Union than about the inflation problems elsewhere in Eastern Europe, but also because I think that perhaps it is in the Soviet Union that the problem of inflation is most critical at this time to the general subject of economic reform.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005