An initial ‘Keynesian illness’? Friedman on taxation and the inflationary gap
考察弗里德曼1941-43年与战后的著作,比较其异同,评估他自称在华盛顿时期患上的‘凯恩斯病’是否如他担心的那样严重。
This paper examines Friedman’s writings in the years 1941–43 and compares them with those after the war with a view to assessing differences and similarities. Albeit a first assessment, Friedman’s claim that he was suffering from a ‘Keynesian illness’ in his ‘Washington phase’ appears to have been less ‘serious’ and deep than he himself feared, although he was to some extent influenced by the ‘prevailing Keynesian temper of the time’.