UK Economic Eras as Illustrated by the Unemployment-Inflation Scatterplot (1950–2022) [Figure 5.12]
Figure 5.12 presents a scatterplot of the UK's unemployment and inflation rates for selected years from 1950 to 2022, with the unemployment axis inverted (falling from left to right) in the style of a Phillips curve diagram. The chart highlights several distinct economic periods. The 1950s and 1960s were characterized by low unemployment and low inflation. The 1973 oil shock ushered in the high-inflation 1970s, followed by the 1980s, a period of stagflation with both high inflation and high unemployment. After 1992, following the adoption of inflation targeting, both inflation and unemployment were generally lower until the 2022 energy shock posed a new challenge to this policy framework.
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UK Economic Eras as Illustrated by the Unemployment-Inflation Scatterplot (1950–2022) [Figure 5.12]
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