stagflation

Blend of stagnation +‎ inflation, generally attributed to British politician Iain Macleod who used it in a 1965 speech (see quotations).[1]

• IPA^(key): /stæɡˈfleɪʃən/

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stagflation (countable and uncountable, plural stagflations)

1. (economics) Inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, unemployment or recession.
   • 1965 November 17, Iain Macleod, “Economic Affairs”, in parliamentary debates (Commons)‎, column 1165:

     We now have the worst of both worlds —not just inflation on the one side or stagnation on the other, but both of them together. We have a sort of "stagflation" situation and history in modern terms is indeed being made. There is another point behind the figures. As I say, production has fallen by 1 per cent. or ½per cent.

   • 1982, Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

     As soon as we understand how involuntary unemployment can result from rational and well-informed individual behavior, it also becomes obvious how inflation and unemployment—which we once thought could not occur simultaneously—can be combined, as they have been in the recent stagflation.

   • 1995, Anthony S. Campagna, Economic Policy in the Carter Administration‎, page 204:

     Since no one had the solutions to stagflation, Carter, a fiscal conservative from the beginning, was thrown back to his personal bias and chose to elevate inflation to the nation's most pressing problem.

   • 2013, George R. Tyler, What Went Wrong: The Big Picture: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class … and What Other Countries Got Right, BenBella Books, Inc., →ISBN:

     Moving into the mid-1970s, America's economic performance suffered. Stagflation—inflation combined with minimal economic growth—eroded wages and profits, weakening business and consumer confidence.

   • 2023 June 17, Chris Giles, Delphine Strauss, “Britain's economic malaise”, in FT Weekend, page 6:

     The UK economy is suffering a nasty bout of stagflation and the prospects appear poor. That is the conclusion financial markets drew this week from yet more disappointing data, highlighting the weakness of the post-Covid economy and the persistence of high inflation.

• stagflationary

• “stagflation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From the verb stagner and the noun inflation.

• IPA^(key): /staɡ.fla.sjɔ̃/

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• Homophone: stagflations

stagflation f (plural stagflations)

1. stagflation

• “stagflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Blend of stagnation +‎ inflation, probably influenced by English stagflation.

• IPA^(key): /staɡflaˈɧuːn/
• Hyphenation: stag‧fla‧tion
• Rhymes: -uːn

stagflation c (countable and uncountable)

1. (economics) stagflation

• stagflationsekonomi

• inflation

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