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Conflicting claims over the distribution of income and the theory of inertial inflation

This paper briefly discusses a few aspects of the evolution of the theory of inertial inflation in the Brazilian literature. Some of its main shortcomings are analyzed from a Sraffian perspective, that sees cost push inflation as being based on conflicting claims over the distribution of income.

inertial inflation; cost push inflation; sraffa


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