Stagflation in the Disco Era
The 1970s brought low levels of economic growth. It is appropriate to look back upon those days today. In this issue of the Harwood Economic Review we are again looking back to the ‘70s, as the worrisome prospects of increasing costs of living amid slowing economic growth are emerging. And with those, the ugliest word in economics has resurfaced: stagflation.
Harwood Economic Review
Table of Contents
Nixonomics in Retrospect: Devaluation and Wage-Price Controls, August 15, 1971
Alan Reynolds
Energy Infamy: Nixon’s 1971 Price Controls Turn 50
Robert L. Bradley Jr.
Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me a Cynic
James Bovard
A Tragic Half Century Without Gold Money
Richard M. Salsman
The End of Bretton Woods, Jacques Rueff, and the Monetary Sin of the West
Lawrence H. White
The $23 Trillion Question
Peter C. Earle
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