TY - BOOK AU - Cagan,Phillip TI - Persistent inflation: historical and policy essays SN - 0231047282 : AV - HG538 .C175 U1 - 332.4'1'0973 PY - 1979/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Inflation (Finance) KW - Wage-price policy KW - Economic Policy KW - United States N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 271-277 N2 - Persistent inflation traces the development of inflation in the 1950s, its abatement in the 1960s and its renewed intensification ever since. It recounts the beginning of Vietnam inflation and the repeated failures to arrest escalation in ensuring years ER -