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It reviews enduring theoretical disputes over how nominal variables like inflation and money growth relate to real outcomes such as output and employment. It contrasts classical views that relative prices matter and inflation has little effect, with Keynesian arguments that sticky wages and prices allow insufficient demand to generate unemployment and that government spending and monetary easing can raise 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controversy duringthe last few decades.The continuing con·troversy reflects,in large part,the ina-bility of economists to resolve theoreti-cal issues surrounding the relationshipbetween nominal variables,such as infla-tion and money growth,and real varia-bles,such as output and employment.  \nIf nominal variables do not signifi-cantly influence the movement of realvariables over the business cycle,assome theories suggest,then monetarypolicy is ineffective as a stabilizationtool.If,on the other hand,such aninfluence does exist,the design ofmonetary policy is an important factorin the business cycle.Although mosteconomists believe monetary policydoes influence the course of the busi-ness cycle,even this belief may nothelp settle the policy issues unless weknow just how those effects operateand how to exploit them.  \nThis Economic Commentary reviewssome of the important developments ineconomic theory that have altered ourunderstanding of the real-nominalinteraction,and their implications formonetary policy.  \n# Classical and Early KeynesianTheories\n\nClassical economic theory,which pre-vailed before 1930,held that economicfluctuations are ultimately determinedby technology,by the preferences of in-dividuals,and by the available quantitiesof capital,labor,and other productivefactors.These ultimate determinantsare reflected in the supply and demandfor commodities,and prices rise or fall(adjust)so that markets clear—that is,so that supply and demand are in bal-ance.But the classical theory held thatnominal prices or the overall price leveldid not influence supplies and demandsof individual commodities.Instead,theprices that really matter to people areprice ratios,or relative prices,whichrepresent the terms of trade betweendifferent goods,and between leisureand consumption.If all nominal(or dol-lar)prices and wages are doubled,rela-tive prices are unchanged,so thatequilibrium quantities and outputs arealso unchanged.It would seem to be aconsequence that there is no effect ofinflation—an overall increase inprices—on economic activity.  \nThe overall price level,in turn,isdetermined by interaction of moneysupply and demand.For example,a risein the supply of money would,given astable turnover rate(velocity),translateinto a higher volume of nominal spend-ing on goods and services.This higherlevel of overall demand would not,to areasonable approximation,affect any ofthe ultimate determinants of the econ-omy's output,so the classical view wasthat all prices would tend to be bid up  \nMay 1,1986  \n# Monetary PolicyDebates ReflectTheoretical Issues\n\nby James G.Hoehn  \nin equal proportion to the moneyincrease.On the other hand,a rise inmoney demand due to rising outputwould,for a given money supply,tendto cause prices to fall as people tried tosave money,so that the nominal supplywould be adequate to carry out trans-actions.So long as prices adjusted fastenough,money growth and inflationwould not appreciably disturb economicactivity,and all resources wouldalways be fully employed.  \nHowever,a strong positive relation-ship between inflation and overall activ-ity was observed in the years prior toWorld War I.Economists began to sus-pect that markets do not clear rapidlyenough for inflation to have no realeffects.Finally,the severity of businesscycles and the depth of the Great Depres·sion made it appear that supply,particu-larly of labor,could exceed demand fora considerable time and by a substantialamount.The notion of continual fullemployment seemed quite implausible.  \nThe Keynesian economists attributedthe Depression to insufficient overall de-mand.They held that wages and priceswere too sticky in the short run to fallenough to eliminate excessive unemploy-ment and other gaps between supply anddemand.Instead,firms and workerswould respond to rising or fallingdemand largely by increasing or de-","cbCaim5DduPe2e6H","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim5DduPe2e6H","pdf",1342298,"English","# Classical and Early Keynesian Theories\n# 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