MILTON FRIEDMAN: the situation was this: the only way you could get the inflation down was by having monetary contraction. There was no way you could do that without having a temporary recession.

弗里德曼：形势是这样的：降低通货膨胀率的唯一方法是收紧银根，而这必然引起暂时的衰退。

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What Irwin says:" 'The Great Contraction' is a short book taken from a chapter in Friedman and Schwartz's monumental 'A Monetary History of the United States' (1963).

推荐理由：“《大收缩》篇幅不长，摘自弗里德曼和施瓦茨的不朽杰作《美国货币史》（1963）的一章。

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At other times, as in the U.S. in the 1970s, there is insufficient political will for the sometimes-painful step of monetary contraction.

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Data released over the past month indicate that the outlook for economic activity in the United Kingdom has deteriorated substantially, reflecting a sharp monetary contraction.

BBC: Central banks' official statements

Those are contagion and monetary contraction.

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