Inflation and the Family - Monetary Policy's Impact on Household Life

This book provides unique insight into the relationship between economics and family life. Taking ideas from the Austrian school of economics' understanding of monetary theory, it delves into the drivers of family formation, fertility, and family disintegration, with a particular focus on the role of inflation and inflationary policy. By placing questions surrounding family life within a political economy setting, the impact of relative price changes, inflation culture, and specific monetary policies on the role and structure of the family are highlighted.
This book offers a nuanced and robust understanding of the economic causes of the deinstitutionalization of traditional family life. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in monetary economics and the economics of the family.

List of contents

1. Theoretical Economics and the Family.- 2. Empirical Economics and the Family.- 3. Money Production and Cantillon Effects.- 4. Monetary Policy and the Emergence of the Inflation Culture.- 5. Empirics on Inflationary Institutions and Habits on Family Life.- 6. The Econometrics of Monetary Policy, Inflation Culture, and Family Life.- 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Jeffery L. Degner is Dean of the School of Business & Innovation and Assistant Professor of Economics at Cornerstone University and is a Fellow of the Mises Institute.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffery L Degner, Jeffery L. Degner
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2025
• EAN: 9783031812040
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3181204-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 18 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 242 p. 4 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Austrian Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Politics and business; Makroökonomie, Bevölkerung und Demographie, Welfare State, auseinandersetzen, price inflation, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, population economics, Political Economy and Economic Systems, fiscal policy, Household economics, Domestic economics, Inflation culture, Housing markets, Deinstitutionalization of the family, Family economics, Economics of the family, Household finances, Higher education markets, Rise of marriage age, Monetary policy and cultural practices, Economics of family life, Net income flows