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Professors and populists all get inflation wrong

Despite what a Nobel prizewinner and Jacqui Lambie might think, growth is the only serious answer to inflation.

Michael StutchburyEditor-at-large
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I was reasonably pleased at getting in a couple of decent jabs at American economist Joseph Stiglitz on the ABC’s Q+A program on Monday night.

But the first lesson is that, to really take on Stiglitz, he needed to be reframed from the start.

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Michael Stutchbury is editor-at-large. He is in his fourth decade of writing for and editing national newspapers. After nearly six years as editor of The Australian, he returned to the Financial Review as editor-in-chief (2011-2024). Email Michael at mstutchbury@afr.com
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