Navigating Macroeconomic Challenges: The Role of Government Intervention in Addressing Price-Wage Rigidity

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Price-wage rigidity is a condition whereby prices and level of wages fail to change despite changes in the economy. The longer it takes for salary or price to adjust the more rigid it is. According to Keynesian’s argument, price-wage inflexibility cannot offset itself without government intervention.
I agree with Keynes that the government ought to be involved in a market experiencing wage and price rigidities. When the economy in recession supply of labor exceeds its demand, it is calling for a cut in payments. In such a situation the government moves in and deploys its fiscal policy strategies (Pettinger n.pag). It may decide to increase the supply of money in the economy to increase demand for goods. The government might increase its spending, and in so doing more money will be availed in the marketplace. With an increase in funds, the economy shifts to a boom, bringing the demand and supply of labor in balance.
Otherwise, if the government fails to intervene, Keynes argues that the inflexibility of wages causes involuntary unemployment in the long run (Worstall n.pag). Involuntary unemployment is whereby the salary paid it too little to the extent that people prefer not to work despite the existence of job opportunities. Such a problem pushes the economy backward as people will have less money hence demand fewer goods.
In the case of price rigidity, the demand for goods exceeds the supply, and the government brings balance by reducing the amount of money circulating in the economy.

It does this by increasing the level of taxes. With price and wage rigidities in mind, the government has to be involved if at all the economy wants to attain its potential output in the long run.
Works Cited
Pettinger, Tejvan. “Keynesianism Vs. Monetarism.” Economics Help, 30 Dec. 2016, www.economicshelp.org/blog/1113/concepts/keynesianism-vs-monetarism/. Accessed 26 Sept. 2018.
Worstall, Tim. “If You’re A Keynesian Then You Must Believe The Minimum Wage Increases Unemployment.” Forbes, 13 June 2015, www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/06/13/if-youre-a-keynesian-then-you-must-believe-the-minimum-wage-increases-unemployment/#6de28367ea3d. Accessed 26 Sept. 2018.