TY - BOOK ID - 77794941 TI - Quantitative easing as a highway to hyperinflation PY - 2014 SN - 9814504920 9789814504928 9789814504911 9814504912 9781306120463 1306120462 PB - New Jersey : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Quantitative easing (Monetary policy) KW - Monetary policy. KW - Inflation (Finance) KW - Finance KW - Natural rate of unemployment KW - Monetary management KW - Economic policy KW - Currency boards KW - Money supply KW - QE (Monetary policy) KW - Queasing (Monetary policy) KW - Banks and banking, Central KW - Monetary policy KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77794941 AB - This book addresses the topical issue of whether the current environment in the US and other major countries, where quantitative easing is used to boost the economy, is conducive to the emergence of hyperinflation. This is a controversial and highly debated issue. Using both economics and history, the author challenges the view that quantitative easing will not lead to hyperinflation and argues that hyperinflation, or at least high inflation, is likely to appear eventually. The book examines all the propositions put forward for and against the eventuality of hyperinflation in the US, using ill ER -