Interest And Prices
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Wicksell had social justice at heart.
His motivation to investigate money concerned the welfare impact of inflation/deflation on purchasing power.
His model has capital and resources flowing whither returns are highest and bankers chasing the highest interest rate on loans, entrepreneurs, the best profit rate on investment, and merchants, the best price for products.
As pure credit, money can unceasingly feed demand for loans, generating the cumulative process whereby loan rate increases add to costs of production and prices. Wicksell’s conclusion: if loan rates lag behind the rate of profit, prices rise.
For stability’s sake, when prices are rising/falling, there…
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