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Stagflation is thought to occur when there is an adverse shock (a sudden increase, say in the price of oil) in a country's aggregate supply curve. The effects of rising inflation and unemployment is especially hard to counteract for the central bank. The bank has one of two choices to make each with negative outcomes. First, the bank can choose to pursue a loose money policy to stimulate the economy and create jobs by increasing the money supply (by lowering interest rates) and exacerbate the inflation problem further. Or second, pursue a tight money policy (by increasing interest rates) to try and reign in inflation at the cost of perhaps increasing unemployment further.
In the 1960s it was thought that the Phillips curve, which was associated with Keynesian economics suggested that stagflation is impossible because high unemployment lowers demand for goods and services which lowers prices. This results in low or no inflation. However, in the 1970s and 1980s, when presented with actual stagflation, it was realized that the relationship between inflation and employment levels was not a constant, but could be shifted, and that the Phillips relationship was better seen through payroll surveys ( Current Employment Statistics ) of employment rather than household surveys ( Current Population Survey) ([1]).
By contrast, quantity theories of inflation, such as monetarism argue that inflation is due to the money supply rather than to demand predicts that inflation can occur with high unemployment if the government increases the money supply in an period of rising prices.
Stagflation occurred in the economies of the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends and the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in in the Nixon administration of the early 1970s as reported by various news and financial sites. The difficulty in fitting its existence within a Keynesian framework led to a greater acceptance of monetarist theories in the 1970s and 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends. The pendulum has, to some extent, swung back in the other direction as monetarism had increasing difficulty predicting the demand for money and the long period of low inflation and high employment of the 1990s - a kind of reverse of stagflation.
As of 2004 global stagflation is making a comeback with the price of oil over $40 a barrel, the US government slowly increasing interest rates, and employment rates stagnant. Monetarists and Keynesian economics continue to have difficulty explaining the phenomena.
Supply-side economicsWhile all macroeconomics involves both supply and demand, supply-side economics is a school of macroeconomic thought popularised in the 1970s by the ideas of Robert Mundell, Arthur Laffer and Jude Wanniski. The term was coined by Wanniski in 1975. In 1978 emerged as a response to US stagflation in the 1970s. It largely attributed inflation to the ending of the Bretton Woods gold standardThis article is on the monetary principle. For gold standard in diagnostic testing see gold standard (test The gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold. When several nations are on a fixed in 1971 and the lack of a specific price reference in the subsequent monetary policies (Keynsian and Monetarism). As a response most governments today compile consumer price indexes as part of their monetary policy.Supply-side economics asserts that the contraction component of stagflation was caused by the inflation induced rise in real tax rates (see bracket creepBracket creep describes the process by which inflation pushes wages and salaries into higher tax brackets. Most progressive tax systems are not adjusted for inflation. As wages and salaries rise in nominal terms under the influence of inflation they becom). In addition certain states in the USA had laws against nominal interest rates being above a certain level and in the midst of inflation this forced real interest rates to be negative. In some places this caused a collapse in finance for business.
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