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Is There a Tool for Controlling Inflation?
Theory of monetarism links price level to the quantity of money in circulation. Central banks use interest rates as their main policy tool for controlling inflation. The chinese right now uses a variety of more direct instruments, such as credit controls. But there has been a retreat from this kind of intrusions by central banks since the 19 seventies.