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Mr Phelps began writing groundbreaking models of the labour market in 1966. 1966年，菲尔普斯开始构建开创性的劳动力市场模型。 A year later, Friedman gave what became the canonical criticism of the old way of thinking in an addres

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The implication? 言下之意？ For a central bank to keep unemployment below the natural rate, it must keep outdoing itself, delivering inflation surprise after inflation surprise. 对于想把失业率维持在自然比率之下的央行来说，它

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The next year it hit 5.4% even as unemployment changed little. 第二年，甚至在失业变化不大的情况下达到了5.4%。 The stagflation of the 1970s killed off the idea of a stable Phillips curve. 上世纪70年代滞张(stagflation)曾一度

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Inflation has behaved strangely over the past decade. 在过去的十年中，通胀表现得很陌生。 The recession that followed the financial crisis of 2007-08 sent American unemployment soaring to 10%. 2007-08年金融危机之后的衰退曾令

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That proposition was put to the test after Paul Volcker became Fed chairman in 1979. 这种主张在保罗沃克尔于1979年成为美联储主席后被付诸验证。 Mr Volcker was set on getting inflation down. 当时，沃克尔决心要把通胀降