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Friedman”s quote is challenging what in Macro theory in his Presidential Address: 

In his famous essay “The Role of Monetary Policy” Milton Friedman says this: “… there is always a temporary trade-off between inflation and unemployment; there is no permanent trade-off. The temporary trade-off comes not from inflation per se, but from unanticipated inflation, which generally means from a rising rate of inflation. The widespread belief that there is a permanent trade-off is a sophisticated version of the confusion between ‘high and rising’ that we call recognize in simpler forms. A rising rate of inflation may reduce unemployment, a high rate will not.”  This means which of the following?

Suppose golf ball workers in Japan earn $12 per hour, while golf ball workers in the Philippines earn $6 per hour on average. Assume these workers in Japan are 3 times more productive then workers in the Philippines. What happens given free trade and zero transaction costs?

According to William Easterly in The Elusive Quest for Growth, the promotion of development in underdeveloped countries by governments of industrialized nations:

Robert Lucas would disagree with which aspect of business cycles?

The new classical macro school would agree with which of the following?

Which of the following would decrease the price level ceteris paribus?

Which of the following is true with respect to the classical macro model?

Which of the following is true concerning the monetary dynamics of inflation?

What is an essential part of the basic original Keynesian model?