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Inflation redistributes income and wealth in favour of :
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- Pensioners
- Poor
- Middle class
- Rich
- Pensioners
Correct Option: D
A group of economists including Keynes is of the opinion that inflation, in one form or the other, is a factor which helps economic growth. Usually, it is argued that inflation tends to redistribute income and wealth. The redistributive effect of inflation is always in favour of profit-earning class, that is to say, it redistributes income always from the wage-recipient class towards the profit-recipient class in the community. As a result, the saving ratio will increase because the marginal propensity to save of the profit earners is generally high as against the high marginal propensity to consume of the wage- earners because of their near-subsistence level of income.