"The responsibility for current world-wide inflation, I am sorry to say, rests wholly and squarely with the economists, or at least with that great majority of my fellow economists who have embraced the teachings of Lord Keynes. What we are experiencing are simply the economic consequences of Lord Keynes. It was on the advice and even urging of his pupils that governments everywhere have financed increasing parts of their expenditure by creating money on a scale which every reputable economist before Keynes would have predicted would cause precisely the sort of inflation we have got. They did this in the erroneous belief that this was both a necessary and a lastingly effective method of securing full employment."
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"Inflation's path to unemployment", Daily Telegraph (London), 15 and 16 October 1974, later published in Ch. 13. "The Campaign Against Keynesian Inflation" of New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas (1978)
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