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Which economic term describes a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment combined with high inflation, a phenomenon that plagued the economy in the 1970s?

Answer: Stagflation — Stagflation challenged the prevailing Keynesian orthodoxy that inflation and unemployment could not rise simultaneously, and led to the rise of monetarism.

Stagflation challenged the prevailing Keynesian orthodoxy that inflation and unemployment could not rise simultaneously, and led to the rise of monetarism.

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