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BPEA | 1974 No. 1The Effects of External Inflationary Shocks
1974, No. 1
THE ECONOMY IS ALWAYS VULNERABLE to a variety of external influences or shocks that have important impacts on income, employment, and prices. While these external shocks are unforeseeable and unavoidable, economic policy must somehow deal with their consequences.