Economists have blamed workers for inflation for over a century

Evidence

Contemporary economists have not renounced the habit of blaming workers. The inclination endures, and a century later the targeted culprits are still those in working-class families. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 15

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economists blamed working-class morality for postwar inflation. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 13; Mainstream economists openly endorse using unemployment to fight inflation — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 283; Monetary inflation was cast as merely a symptom of governmental and worker misbehavior — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 783 (+3 more)