The right policy is to stabilize aggregate demand (total spending PY) while letting the price level fall when productivity improves and rise when it falls, because an improvement in productivity is a change in the relative price of output to input—so forcing a stable output price level requires inflating input prices, whereas letting output prices decline is better.

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George Selgin

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I argue that the output price level should just be allowed to decline if productivity is improving so that's the argument of less than zero

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George Selgin on Free Banking 11/17/2008EconTalk
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