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A measure of wheat for a penny: food price inflation in historical perspective - speech by Andrew Bailey
Given at the Henry Plumb Memorial Lecture
Published on
20 November 2023
In this lecture Andrew Bailey discusses food price inflation in the United Kingdom, describing how it is affected by cost pressures in the food supply chain. He takes a long historical perspective, before considering the recent increase in food prices and reflecting on the outlook for food price inflation.