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What Factors Brought the Seemingly Endless Rise in National Prosperity

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What factors brought the seemingly endless rise in national prosperity of the 1950s and early 1960s to an end by the early 1970s?


Definitions:

Resource Prices

The costs associated with procuring the natural, human, and capital resources needed for producing goods and services.

Natural Rate

The unemployment rate or level of activity achieved in an economy when it is at full employment, without accelerating inflation.

Unemployment

The situation in which individuals who are capable of working are actively seeking work but are unable to find employment.

Cyclical

Pertaining to fluctuations in economic activity occurring due to the natural business cycle, including expansions, peaks, recessions, and troughs.

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