1979
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Benjamin Eden, « The Nominal System : Linkage to the Quantity of Money or to Nominal Income », Revue économique, ID : 10.3406/reco.1979.408452
The nominal system : linkage to the quantity of money or to nominal income Under stable money supply, economic agents wish to employ money as a unit of account in future contracts ; we should therefore try to preserve the functions of nominal contracts in the presence of monetary disturbances. Thus it is erratic changes in monetary policy that should be neutralized (by means of linkage to the quantity of money or nominal incarne) rather than random changes in the rate of inflation (by means of indexation).