Inflation and Disinflation in Europe After the Second World War
摘要
This chapter starts our detailed empirical analysis of developments in the UK. France and Germany between the end of post-war reconstruction (1950) and the institution of a restrictive monetary regime (c. 1985). It sets up the comparison as a Most Different Systems Design, demonstrating how commonalities among the life chances of average households and electoral competition drove, despite stark differences in other areas, the generalized adoption of monetarism.