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  • Created on: 11-05-13 14:48
What is the Keynes-Phillips orthodoxy?
Inflation cannot occur when there is large scale unemployment
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How did Friedman counter the Keynes-Phillips orthodoxy?
He explained the co-existence of high unemployment and high inflation by using excessive money growth.
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Why is the Phillips inflation-unemployment curve described as L shaped?
It reaches a point where workers won't offer their services
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Which description is usually given for y<1?
the Money Illusion: people are deluded about wage and price rises
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What is the reservation wage?
The minimum working wage people are willing to accept
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The longer a person remains unemployed...
...It is likely that their reservation wage will decrease
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A rise in benefits to unemployed workers may mean...
... an increase in unemployment if this is above reservation wages of those workers
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If the actual inflation rate is higher than the expected inflation rate...
... unemployment will fall
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You reach the natural rate of unemployment when..
the actual inflation rate = expected inflation rate
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