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Is "High" Capacity Utilization Inflationary?

By Mary G. Finn
Economic Quarterly
Winter 1995

High capacity utilization is sometimes inflationary, but so too is low capacity utilization. These relationships fail to support theories that ignore supply shocks and that maintain nonlinearity of the aggregate supply curve.

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