Evaluating a Long-Term Economic Policy
A government implements a policy to permanently maintain the unemployment rate below its long-run average. To achieve this, policymakers are willing to tolerate what they hope will be a stable, moderately high rate of inflation. Analyze the long-term viability of this policy. Specifically, explain how the reactions of wage and price setters to ongoing inflation might affect the inflation rate over time. Will the inflation rate likely remain stable, or will it change? Justify your conclusion.
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