Observations on Phase II Price and Wage Controls

Gardner Ackley

1972, No. 1

A NUMBER OF ISSUES CONCERNING the present program of price and wage controls divide members of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, as they divide economists generally. This paper does not deal with the more basic of these issues. Rather, it takes as given the decisions to freeze prices and wages last August, and to follow the freeze with a program for Phase II having essentially the objectives of the present one. It considers how well the program is achieving these objectives and whether and how they might be achieved more effectively. The treatment is selective rather than comprehensive.

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Observations on Phase II Price and Wage Controls

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Observations on Phase II Price and Wage Controls

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