How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes


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productivity gains, two things were certain: the fi sh never got 
bigger, and prices rarely went down! 
When fi shfl ation became rapid, islanders fi nally noticed 
that the fi sh they withdrew from the bank were smaller 
than the fi sh they deposited. So, despite the enticement 
of interest paid on their savings, they began to save less 
while many discontinued saving completely. Instead, 
fi sh had to be spent quickly to avoid losses due to rapidly 
increasing prices. 
The real burden of this rapid fi shfl ation fell on retirees. Those 
who had deposited fi sh in the bank during their working 
years found that they had to eat two or three fi sh per day just 
to survive. The savings that they had hoped would last for 20 
years, were gone in just four or fi ve.
Since fi shfl ation discouraged saving, bank deposits dwindled. 
As a result, there were less fi sh available to fund promising 
projects or prop up sagging businesses. In response, 
businesses cut back and workers were laid off. Desperate to 
offset the effects of fi shfl ation, many more islanders decided 
to risk thier savings with Manny Fund, whose promise of 
oversized returns gave investors the best hope of overcoming 
these losses.
When unemployment reached a crisis level, people 
demanded that the government do something.
In response, the Senate set strict limits on how much 
companies could pay workers, under what circumstances 
the workers could be hired and fi red, and how much the 
businesses could charge for their products. The resulting 



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