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Preface 5th Edition |
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1 The Economy and the Planner's Solution |
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3 | (17) |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (7) |
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7 | (5) |
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12 | (1) |
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1.3.3 The Never-Ending Economy |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (4) |
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1.4.1 Feasible Allocations |
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13 | (2) |
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1.4.2 The Golden Rule Al location |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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17 | (3) |
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2 Equilibrium Trade in the Economy without Money |
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20 | (13) |
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2.1 Decentralized Solutions |
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21 | (7) |
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2.1.1 A Record-Keeping Equilibrium |
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22 | (2) |
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2.1.2 Finding the Value of Transfers |
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24 | (2) |
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2.1.3 The Game and the Enforcement |
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26 | (2) |
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2.2 Is the Record-Keeping Equilibrium the Golden Rule? |
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28 | (1) |
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2.3 Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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3 A Simple Model of Money |
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33 | (23) |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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3.3 Decentralized Solutions |
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35 | (2) |
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3.3.1 Equilibrium without Money |
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35 | (1) |
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3.3.2 Equilibrium with Money |
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36 | (1) |
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3.4 Finding the Demand for Fiat Money |
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37 | (8) |
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38 | (2) |
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3.4.2 Finding Fiat Money's Return |
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40 | (3) |
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3.4.3 The Quantity Theory of Money |
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43 | (1) |
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3.4.4 The Neutrality of the Fiat Money Stock |
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44 | (1) |
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3.4.5 The Role of Fiat Money |
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44 | (1) |
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3.5 Is This Monetary Equilibrium the Golden Rule? |
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45 | (1) |
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3.6 A Monetary Equilibrium with a Growing Economy |
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46 | (4) |
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3.6.1 The Feasible Set with a Growing Population |
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47 | (1) |
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3.6.2 The Budget Set with a Growing Population |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (1) |
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50 | (3) |
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3.9 Appendix: Using Calculus |
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53 | (3) |
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55 | (1) |
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4 Barter and Commodity Money |
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56 | (17) |
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4.1 Barter and Commodity Money |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (6) |
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58 | (3) |
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61 | (2) |
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4.3 What Should Be Used as Money? |
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63 | (3) |
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64 | (2) |
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4.4 A Model of Commodity Money |
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66 | (4) |
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4.4.1 The Consumption of Gold |
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67 | (2) |
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4.4.2 The Inefficiency of Commodity Money |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (1) |
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70 | (3) |
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73 | (26) |
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73 | (1) |
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5.2 A Growing Supply of Fiat Money |
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74 | (10) |
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5.2.1 The Budget Set with Monetary Growth |
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76 | (2) |
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5.2.2 The Inefficiency of Inflation |
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78 | (3) |
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5.2.3 The Golden Rule Monetary Policy in a Growing Economy |
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81 | (1) |
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5.2.4 A Government Policy to Fix the Price Level |
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82 | (2) |
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5.3 Financing Government Purchases |
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84 | (6) |
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5.3.1 Is Inflation an Efficient Tax? |
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86 | (1) |
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5.3.2 A Nondistorting Tax |
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87 | (3) |
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5.4 The Limits to Seigniorage |
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90 | (4) |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (2) |
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5.7 Appendix: Equilibrium Consumption Is at the Edge of the Feasible Set |
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97 | (2) |
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6 International Monetary Systems |
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99 | (26) |
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6.1 Model of International Exchange |
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100 | (2) |
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6.2 Foreign Currency Controls |
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102 | (4) |
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6.2.1 Fixed Exchange Rates |
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104 | (1) |
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6.2.2 The Costs of Foreign Currency Controls |
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105 | (1) |
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6.3 The Indeterminacy of the Exchange Rate |
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106 | (6) |
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6.3.1 Exchange Rate Fluctuations |
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107 | (2) |
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6.3.2 International Currency Traders |
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109 | (3) |
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6.4 Fixing the Exchange Rate |
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112 | (9) |
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6.4.1 Cooperative Stabilization |
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112 | (2) |
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6.4.2 Unilateral Defense of the Exchange Rate |
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114 | (4) |
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6.4.3 Speculative Attacks on Currencies |
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118 | (1) |
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6.4.4 Inflationary Incentives |
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119 | (2) |
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6.5 The Optimal International Monetary System |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (2) |
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125 | (20) |
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125 | (2) |
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126 | (1) |
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7.1.2 Cross-Country Comparisons |
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127 | (1) |
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7.2 Expectations and the Neutrality of Money |
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127 | (9) |
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128 | (2) |
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7.2.2 Nonrandom Inflation |
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130 | (3) |
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7.2.3 Random Monetary Policy |
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133 | (3) |
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7.3 The Lucas Critique of Econometric Policy Evaluation |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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7.7 Appendix: A Proof by Contradiction |
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140 | (5) |
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Part II Capital and Banking |
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145 | (21) |
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145 | (3) |
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148 | (1) |
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8.3 Can Fiat Money Coexist with Another Asset? |
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149 | (2) |
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149 | (2) |
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8.4 When Fiat Money and Other Assets Are Not Substitutes |
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151 | (3) |
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8.4.1 Nominal Interest Rates |
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151 | (2) |
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8.4.2 Anticipated Inflation and the Nominal Interest Rate |
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153 | (1) |
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8.4.3 Anticipated Inflation and the Real Interest Rate |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (2) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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8.8 Appendix A: A Model of Private Debt |
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158 | (4) |
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158 | (1) |
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158 | (2) |
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8.8.3 The Borrower Problem |
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160 | (1) |
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8.8.4 Private Debt and Capital |
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160 | (2) |
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8.9 Appendix B: The Golden Rule Capital Stock |
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162 | (4) |
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9 Liquidity and Financial Intermediation |
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166 | (14) |
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9.1 Money as a Liquid Asset |
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167 | (4) |
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9.1.1 A Model of Uliquidity |
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168 | (3) |
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9.2 The Business of Banking |
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171 | (2) |
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9.2.1 A Simple Arbitrage Plan |
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171 | (1) |
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9.2.2 The Effect of Arbitrage on Equilibrium |
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171 | (2) |
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173 | (4) |
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9.3.1 Unintermediated Investment |
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175 | (1) |
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9.3.2 Intermediated Investment |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (2) |
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10 Central Banking and the Money Supply |
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180 | (19) |
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10.1 Legal Restrictions on Financial Intermediation |
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180 | (1) |
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10.2 Reserve Requirements |
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181 | (5) |
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10.2.1 Banks with Reserve Requirements |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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10.2.4 Capital and Output |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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10.3 Central Bank Definitions of Money |
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186 | (4) |
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10.3.1 The Total Money Supply in Our Model |
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188 | (2) |
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10.4 Central Bank Lending |
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190 | (7) |
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10.4.1 Limited Central Bank Lending |
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191 | (3) |
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10.4.2 Unlimited Central Bank Lending |
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194 | (1) |
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10.4.3 Central Bank Lending Policies in the United States and Canada |
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195 | (1) |
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10.4.4 Central Bank Lending since the 2007 Financial Crisis |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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11 Money Stock Fluctuations |
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199 | (19) |
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11.1 The Correlation between Money and Output |
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200 | (2) |
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11.2 A Model of Currency and Deposits |
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202 | (5) |
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11.2.1 A Model of Inside and Outside Money |
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202 | (5) |
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11.3 Linking Output and the Money Multiplier |
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207 | (3) |
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11.3.1 Correlation or Causality? |
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209 | (1) |
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11.3.2 A Once-and-for-All Change in the Fiat Money Stock |
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209 | (1) |
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11.4 A Monetary Stabilization Policy? |
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210 | (2) |
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11.4.1 Another Look at Monetary Aggregates |
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211 | (1) |
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11.5 Anticipated Inflation and Output Revisited |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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214 | (2) |
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11.9 Appendix: The Money Supply with Reserves and Currency |
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216 | (2) |
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12 Fully Backed Central Bank Money |
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218 | (17) |
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12.1 Paying Interest on Money |
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219 | (3) |
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12.2 Another Look at the Quantity Theory |
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222 | (5) |
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12.2.1 Money and Prices: 2007-2015 |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (3) |
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231 | (1) |
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231 | (2) |
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12.7 Appendix: Price Level Indeterminacy |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (23) |
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236 | (2) |
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13.2 A Model of the Clearing of Debt |
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238 | (3) |
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239 | (2) |
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13.3 Institutions for the Clearing of Debt |
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241 | (2) |
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243 | (4) |
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13.4.1 Equilibrium with an Inelastic Money Supply |
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244 | (1) |
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13.4.2 An Elastic Fiat Money Supply |
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244 | (1) |
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13.4.3 An Elastic Supply of Inside Money |
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245 | (1) |
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13.4.4 Fully Backed Bank Notes |
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246 | (1) |
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13.5 A Potential for an Inflationary Overissue of Bank Notes |
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247 | (1) |
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13.6 The Short-Term Interest Rate |
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248 | (3) |
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249 | (2) |
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13.7 Liquidity and the 2007 Financial Crisis |
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251 | (4) |
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13.7.1 Unconventional Monetary Policy |
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253 | (2) |
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255 | (1) |
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255 | (1) |
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13.10 Appendix: A Secondary Market |
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256 | (2) |
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258 | (20) |
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14.1 Demand Deposit Banking |
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259 | (3) |
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14.1.1 A Model of Demand Deposit Banking |
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259 | (3) |
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262 | (1) |
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14.3 Preventing Bank Panics |
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263 | (4) |
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263 | (2) |
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14.3.2 Identifying Unnecessary Withdrawals |
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265 | (1) |
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14.3.3 Suspensions of Withdrawals |
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265 | (1) |
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14.3.4 Government Deposit Insurance |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (3) |
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14.5 The Moral Hazard of Deposit Insurance |
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270 | (1) |
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14.6 The Importance of Capital Requirements |
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271 | (3) |
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14.6.1 Capital Requirements for Insured Banks |
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271 | (1) |
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14.6.2 Closing Insolvent Banks |
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272 | (2) |
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274 | (1) |
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274 | (2) |
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14.9 Appendix: Targets, Channels, and Floors |
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276 | (2) |
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15 Liquidity Risk and Bank Panics |
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278 | (27) |
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15.1 Money with Limited Communication |
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279 | (10) |
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15.1.1 A Model with Random Relocation |
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279 | (2) |
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15.1.2 The Person's Portfolio Decision |
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281 | (3) |
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15.1.3 Portfolio Allocation with a Bank |
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284 | (4) |
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15.1.4 With Only Second-Period Consumption |
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288 | (1) |
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15.2 Optimal Consumption Bundles |
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289 | (4) |
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15.2.1 Optimal Monetary Policy |
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292 | (1) |
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293 | (5) |
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15.3.1 Regulation and Bank Panics |
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295 | (2) |
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15.3.2 Inelastic Currency Supply |
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297 | (1) |
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15.3.3 Elastic Currency Supply |
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298 | (1) |
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15.4 Money, Banking, and the Zero Lower Bound |
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298 | (3) |
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301 | (1) |
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301 | (4) |
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Part III Government Policy |
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16 Deficits and the National Debt |
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305 | (21) |
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16.1 High-Denomination Government Debt |
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305 | (4) |
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16.1.1 A Model of Separated Asset Markets |
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307 | (1) |
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16.1.2 Introducing Government Bonds |
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308 | (1) |
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16.2 Continual Debt Issue |
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309 | (6) |
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16.2.1 Rolling Over the Debt |
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311 | (4) |
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16.3 The Burden of the National Debt |
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315 | (4) |
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16.3.1 The Government Budget Constraint |
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316 | (1) |
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16.3.2 The Government's Intertemporal Choice |
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317 | (2) |
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16.4 Open Market Operations |
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319 | (2) |
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16.5 Political Strategy and the National Debt |
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321 | (2) |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (2) |
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17 Savings and Investment |
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326 | (15) |
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17.1 The Savings Decision |
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326 | (7) |
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328 | (1) |
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328 | (2) |
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17.1.3 Wealth and Consumption |
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330 | (2) |
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332 | (1) |
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17.2 The Effects of Taxes on Consumption and Savings |
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333 | (3) |
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17.2.1 Wealth-Neutral Tax Changes |
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334 | (1) |
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335 | (1) |
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336 | (3) |
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17.3.1 Fully Funded Government Pensions |
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336 | (2) |
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17.3.2 Pay-as-You-Go Pensions |
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338 | (1) |
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339 | (1) |
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340 | (1) |
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18 The Effect of the National Debt on Capital and Savings |
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341 | (19) |
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18.1 The National Debt and the Crowding Out of Capital |
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342 | (3) |
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18.1.1 Deficits and Interest Rates |
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344 | (1) |
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18.2 Neutral Government Debt |
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345 | (2) |
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18.3 Fiat Money and the Crowding Out of Capital |
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347 | (2) |
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18.3.1 Offsetting Wealth Transfers |
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348 | (1) |
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18.4 Infinitely Lived Agents |
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349 | (8) |
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18.4.1 A Model of Infinitely Lived People |
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350 | (1) |
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18.4.2 Wealth, Capital, and Interest-Bearing Government Debt |
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350 | (2) |
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18.4.3 Wealth, Capital, and Real Balances |
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352 | (2) |
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18.4.4 Parents, Bequests, and Infinite Lives |
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354 | (1) |
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18.4.5 A Simple Model of Parents |
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354 | (2) |
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18.4.6 Parents Leaving No Bequest |
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356 | (1) |
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357 | (1) |
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357 | (3) |
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19 The Temptation of Inflation |
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360 | (21) |
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19.1 Defaulting on the Debt |
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360 | (5) |
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19.1.1 The Inconsistency of Default |
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361 | (2) |
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363 | (1) |
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364 | (1) |
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19.1.4 The Return on Risky Debt |
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364 | (1) |
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19.2 Inflation and the Nominal National Debt |
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365 | (10) |
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19.2.1 Unanticipated Inflation and the Real National Debt |
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365 | (1) |
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19.2.2 Anticipated Inflation and the Real National Debt |
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366 | (2) |
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19.2.3 Rational Expectations |
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368 | (1) |
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19.2.4 The Lucas Critique Revisited |
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369 | (2) |
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19.2.5 Self-Fulfilling Inflationary Expectations |
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371 | (1) |
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372 | (1) |
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19.2.7 Commitment in Monetary Policy |
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373 | (2) |
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19.3 The Temptation of Seigniorage |
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375 | (1) |
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19.4 Inflation and Private Debt |
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375 | (1) |
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376 | (1) |
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377 | (1) |
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19.7 Appendix: An Activist |
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377 | (4) |
References |
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