The crisis that is quickly manifesting itself across the developed economies has many features of the classic supply-side crises of the 1970s and 1980s. The question is, what can we learn from the remedies used decades ago, to select the policies that could bring us out of today´s crisis?
By now there is no doubt that the developed economies have entered a period of stagflation. While consumer prices have continued to accelerate to the highest levels seen in more than a decade in some countries, other indicators show that the United States, the United Kingdom and even Spain may already be in recession. The combination of stagnation and rising inflation is familiar from the experience of the 1970s and early 1980s.
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