'''Inflation''' in economics, collective increases in the supply of money, in money incomes, or in prices. Inflation is generally thought of as an inordinate rise in the general level of prices. From a theoretical view, at least four basic schemata commonly used in considerations of inflation can be distinguished. | '''Inflation''' in economics, collective increases in the supply of money, in money incomes, or in prices. Inflation is generally thought of as an inordinate rise in the general level of prices. From a theoretical view, at least four basic schemata commonly used in considerations of inflation can be distinguished. |