Inflation redistributes income and wealth in favour of

(A) Pensioners
(B) Poor
(C) Middle class
(D) Rich

Correct Answer : Rich
Question Asked : SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam 2011
Explanation : 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.
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