Deflation is a "matter of national choice"

In an article published in the Financial Times Avinash Persaud says attempts by the Japanese to inflate their economy fail because Japan is a nation of creditors.

First published in the UK edition of the Financial Times, 30 May 2003.

The writer, Avinash Persaud, is professor of commerce at Gresham College and global head of research at State Street bank, Boston.

For all the recent anxiety over inflation, it is still unclear whether the global economy will indeed be caught in the vice of falling

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