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The Enduring Impact of the 1967 Expectations Critique
In a landmark 1967 address, an economist argued that any apparent trade-off between unemployment and inflation was merely a short-term phenomenon. The core of this argument was that as people and firms come to expect higher inflation, the trade-off disappears. Evaluate the long-term significance of this argument for the conduct of monetary policy by central banks.
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