But dismissing inflation as “yesterday’s problem” could undermine central banks’ efforts to address today’s most pressing issues – and, ultimately, facilitate inflation’s resurgence. Understanding how the Great Inflation from the late 1960’s to the early 1980’s was tamed offers important lessons for addressing far-reaching economic problems, however different ours may be, and provides insight into the dangers that may lie ahead.
但将通胀视为“昨天的问题”而不予关注不利于央行解决当今最紧迫的问题，也将最终助长通胀的卷土重来。理解20世纪60年代末到80年代初的大通胀如何是解决的能为解决重大经济问题提供重要教训（不管我们现在所处的时代已有了多大的不同），也能为未来所面临的的危险提供洞见。