Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers

by Nicolo Fraccaroli and Mark Blyth

Since the 1970s, there has only been one playbook for fighting inflation: raise interest rates, thereby creating unemployment and a recession, which will lower prices. This simple story hides a multitude of assumptions about why prices go up and how policymakers can wrestle them back down--assumptions that are often wrong, damaging, and have little empirical basis. Prominent economists Mark Blyth and Nicol Fraccaroli reveal why inflation happens,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132410614X
• ISBN13: 9781324106142
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages