Steve Keen's Debtwatch » Inflation Targetting http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs Analysing the Global Debt Bubble Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:14:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Stiglitz Trashes Inflation Targetting http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2008/06/09/stiglitz-trashes-inflation-targetting/ http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2008/06/09/stiglitz-trashes-inflation-targetting/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:01:26 +0000 Steve Keen http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/?p=70 As a 65 year old winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Joseph Stiglitz is not someone that mainstream economists can dismiss as either a crank or senile–the usual reactions to anyone who opposes conventional thought in economic theory or policy.

So when he comes out and says that inflation targetting is foolish and dangerous, his views are worth taking note of. Here is Stiglitz’s commentary on inflation targetting, published earlier this month.

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