stagflation

2002-11-17 Thread Devine, James
Title: stagflation [was RE: [PEN-L:32334] Re: Archetypes ] Joanna: Uh, is that the short way of saying "unemployment + inflation"? that's right, but it's a bit more complicated. The word "stagflation" arose in the US during the 1970s and the very early 1980s

Is this what Stagflation looks like?

2002-08-01 Thread pms
Thursday August 1, 12:14 pm Eastern Time Reuters Business Report Manufacturing Growth Nearly Halts in July By Ross Finley NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing growth nearly ground to a halt in July, a report said on Thursday, showing the economy has cooled significantly from earlier this year

Keynesianism & stagflation

2000-08-04 Thread Jim Devine
Yoshie wrote: >When I went to college, in contrast, teachers in economics spent much time >criticizing Keynesians from one neoclassical point of view or >another. They said Keynesians couldn't come up with a viable solution to >stagflation, which destroyed the authority of Ke