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It argues that the Federal Reserve can control nominal variables such as money supply, price levels, and their rates of change, but not the real physical quantities of goods or the deeper determinants of output. 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SoundEconomic Decisions  \nbyJames G.Hoehn  \nMonetary policy has raditionalysought the attainment of several eco-nomic conditions,including highemployment,steady capacity growth,a stable dollar,and low inflation.Theultimate goal is enhancement of thegeneral welfare.  \nThe question is,how can monetarypolicy successfully meet concernsabout output,employment,and infla-tion simultaneously?This EconomicCommentary argues that monetarypolicy can serve the general welfareby keeping inflation stable.Undersuch a policy,people can makesound economic decisions aboutwork,production,and consumptionfree of unnecessary distortions causedby variable inflation.  \nConsiderable reliance should beplaced on inflation and inflationarypressures as indicators of the successof policy rather than on the outlookfor output and employment.Outputand employment concerns will belargely met if the Federal Reservepursues its commitment to keep inflation stable.  \n# The Inability of Monetary Policyto Control Output\n\nThe all-embracing public policyobjective of enhanced general welfaredoes not directly translate into a par-ticular policy objective for the FederalReserve System.The design of monetary policy therefore is thought toreflect the judicious weighing of several criteria,including levels of inflation,output,and employment.  \nThis notion,however,must take intoaccount that the Federal Reserve canultimately control only current-dollareconomic variables such as the moneystock,the general level of prices,orthe rates of change in prices.TheFederal Reserve regulates thesecurrent-dollar,or nominal,quantitiesby changing the amount of securitiesit holds in its portfolio.  \nThe problem is that the public wel-fare depends not on these nominalvariables under the control of theFederal Reserve,but on physical quan-tities of consumption goods available,  \nMay 1,1988  \nHow should monetary policy use itscontrol over money and prices toinfluence employment and output?Under a policy to stabilize inflation,people can more easily make soundproduction and consumption deci-sions,and economic activity willtend to vary appropriately withchanges in productive opportunities.  \nor output,which the Federal Reservecannot control.Although policy caninfluence output in the short run,achievement of an arbitrary target foroutput is not possible because outputdepends largely on factors over whichmonetary policy has very little influence,such as technology and theavailability of productive resourcessuch as land,labor,and machines.  \nThe challenge for monetary policy ishow to use control over money andprices to keep output close to anappropriate level.The problem iscomplicated by the lack of adequateknowledge about the factors thatdetermine appropriate output at anygiven time:available resources,tech-nology,and personal preferences forconsumption versus leisure.  \n## ■ Variable Inflation Can DistortProduction and ConsumptionDecisions\n\nIf people are fully informed aboutprices,and if prices are free to adjustto pressures emanating from thedecisions of buyers and sellers,thenpeople are able to make soundresource decisions.As a result,theoutput level will be ideal in a text-book sense.If the world were soideal,monetary policy would nothave the important influence that ithas on output.  \nConsider first that people do not haveall the information they might like tohave when making buying and sellingdecisions.In order to know howmuch of his income to spend onbeef,for example,a person wouldideally want to know the value of hisdollars in all kinds of alternative pur-chases,from pork to sports cars.  \nA person also would like to know thepurchasing power of his dollar thisyear,next year,and even further intothe future in order to make prudentchoices.(Generally,a dollar has avalue inversely proportional to theoverall price index,such as the Con-sumer Price Index.)To the extentthat a person is uncertain about thevalue of a dollar,he cannot makesound economic 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