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BPEA | 1974 No. 1Food Prices and Inflation
Dale E. Hathaway
Dale E. Hathaway
International Division, The Ford Foundation
Dale E. Hathaway
International Division, The Ford Foundation
1974, No. 1
EVERY ADMINISTRATION SINCE WORLD WAR II has worried about inflation or recession at one time or another during its term in office-sometimes simultaneously. But except for the period immediately after World War II and the Korean War year, 1951, the price record of the United States was admirable by world standards until the mid-1960s, when the pressures of expenditures on the Vietnam War again made inflation a serious economic and political issue.