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The writer is a professor at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin
Mainstream economics' medieval inflation cure
In modern medicine, specific diagnosis leads to specific treatment, but mainstream economists hark back to the medieval approach, attributing all diseases to a common cause