Economists and
policy-makers try to bring equality or equilibrium in demand and supply, and,
prices and unemployment by the use of the economic-policies, monetary and
fiscal, while targeting a higher standard of living by adjusting the money
supply on a general assumption that inflation might increase in the short-run
in order to achieve full-employment, full-demand, full supply and full growth
based on the growth of population or labour-force. However, high-demand and low-supply
result in higher prices, therefore manipulating, the both, might bring
stability in prices or inflation and unemployment. The adjustment is also
brought by price and price expectations by targeting real prices or the
inflation adjusted prices, when there is inflation or nominal prices are higher
than real prices, the monetary/fiscal policy is tightened to bring demand lower
to supply, that is a standard prescription, but the same outcome might also be
achieved if supply is also increased, higher prices would itself increase the
supply and lower the price level. The law of supply is also operative in the
economy if we target higher inflation adjusted prices or real prices by
increasing money-supply and lowering the nominal interest rate or the borrowing
cost, lower borrowing cost would help increase supply. Nonetheless, in the past
limited land and food prices and later the fuel prices had been mainly
responsible for assuming inflation and inflation expectation as result of
expansion in money-supply and lower interest rate, but higher productivity of
land due to extensive use of better techniques and higher supply of fuel due to
more investment and innovation in the area of energy and also a decreasing
world population has all contributed to lower inflation or deflation and
expectations. Moreover, lower real natural rate of interest has also helped
increase investment and supply and lower the price-level and expectation about
them. Therefore, it is the need of the hour to construct models based on the
assumption that prices may also fall as a result of expansion in money supply
and lower interest rate or borrowing cost and higher supply, competition from
multi-nationals has also resulted in price completion and lower prices. If the policy-makers target lower inflation
or deflation and expectations by increasing money-supply and lowering the
borrowing cost and increase supply in a controlled manner it might also set
equilibrium in demand and supply, and, inflation/deflation and unemployment…
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