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Economic Modeling and Social Conflict: 2 — Inflation and the Phillips Curve

In: Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy

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  • Massimo Angelis

    (University of East London)

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The basic assumption of the Neo-classical Synthesis in its simplest form was fixed wages and prices. This assumption allowed a simple method of aggregation and put emphasis on government policies to manage the level of accumulation for a given balance between necessary and surplus labor. However “the consequences of doing it were serious” (Hicks 1974: 60). The consequences Hicks is referring to are those related to the lack of a proper theory of inflation, or the relation between wages and inflation: For when Keynes’ theory is set out in this text-book manner (as I shall call it) it is bound to give the impression that there are just two “states” of the economy: a “state of unemployment” in which money wages are constant, and a “state of full employment” in which pressure of demand causes wages to rise. So “full employment” is an “inflation barrier.” As long as employment is less than full, even if it is only marginally less than full, there should be no wage-inflation. So all we need do, in order to have “full employment without inflation,” is suitably to control demand. (Hicks 1974: 60–1)

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  • Massimo Angelis, 2000. "Economic Modeling and Social Conflict: 2 — Inflation and the Phillips Curve," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy, chapter 10, pages 135-147, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97749-1_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333977491_10
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