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The Roots of Modern Macroeconomics
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National output
Different aggregate supply curves: (a)
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Price level
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AD1
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National output
Different aggregate supply curves: (a)
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Price level
P2
P1
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AD1
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National output
THREE KEY ISSUES
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National output
Price level Different aggregate supply curves: (b)
P AS
AD1
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National output
Price level Different aggregate supply curves: (b)
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AD2
AD1
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National output
THREE KEY ISSUES
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Price level
National output
Different aggregate supply curves: (c)
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Price level
P1
AD1
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National output
Different aggregate supply curves: (c)
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Price level
P2
P1
AD2
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National output
THREE KEY ISSUES
Classical
Macroeconomics
CLASSICAL MACROECONOMICS
Investment (demand)
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Quantity of loanable funds
The market for loanable funds
Saving (supply)
Rate of interest
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Investment (demand)
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Quantity of loanable funds
The market for loanable funds
Saving (supply)
Rate of interest
r1
Investment (demand)
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Quantity of loanable funds
The market for loanable funds
Saving (supply)
Rate of interest
r2
Investment (demand)
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Quantity of loanable funds
The market for loanable funds
Saving (supply)
Rate of interest
r2
Investment (demand)
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Quantity of loanable funds
The market for loanable funds
Saving (supply)
Rate of interest
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Investment (demand)
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Quantity of loanable funds
CLASSICAL MACROECONOMICS
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16
0
Inflation (%)
14
12 -5
10
-10
8
6 -15
4
-20
2
0 -25
1919 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933 1935 1937
UK unemployment and inflation: 1919 − 38
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Unemployment
22
10
20
Unemployment (% of workforce)
18 Inflation 5
16
0
Inflation (%)
14
12 -5
10
-10
8
6 -15
4
-20
2
0 -25
1919 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933 1935 1937
CLASSICAL MACROECONOMICS
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Price level
P2
P1
AD2
AD1
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National output
The Roots of Modern Macroeconomics
The Keynesian
Revolution
THE KEYNESIAN REVOLUTION
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ADL1
ADL2
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Quantity of labour
THE KEYNESIAN REVOLUTION
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r2
Investment
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Quantity of loanable funds
THE KEYNESIAN REVOLUTION
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Price level
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National output
The effects of increases in aggregate demand on national output
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Price level
AD4
AD3
AD1 AD2
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National output
THE KEYNESIAN REVOLUTION
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The circular flow of income
Incomes Cd
The circular flow of income
Incomes Cd
W=S+T+M
The circular flow of income
J=I+G+X
Incomes Cd
W=S+T+M
The circular flow of income
J=I+G+X
Incomes Cd
W=S+T+M
The circular flow of income
J=I+G+X
Incomes Cd
W=S+T+M
The circular flow of income
J=I+G+X
Incomes Cd
W=S+T+M
THE KEYNESIAN REVOLUTION
The Monetarist–
Keynesian Debate
THE MONETARIST–KEYNESIAN DEBATE
✦ inflation
The monetarist version of the long-run Phillips curve
Inflation (%)
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Unemployment
(a) Keynesian aggregate supply curve
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Price level
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National output
Inflation (%) (b) Keynesian Phillips curve
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Umin
Unemployment
THE MONETARIST–KEYNESIAN DEBATE
✦ inflation
✜ monetarist policies
THE MONETARIST–KEYNESIAN DEBATE
✦ inflation
✜ monetarist policies
✜ attempts at such policies in the 1980s
THE MONETARIST–KEYNESIAN DEBATE
■ Modern-day Keynesians
✜ inflation
✜ unemployment
✜ structural problems
✜ hysteresis
✦ low capital stock
✦ deskilling
■ A mainstream consensus?
✜ short-run effects of changes in AD
✜ long-run effects of changes in AD
✜ no simple trade-off between inflation and
unemployment
✜ role of expectations
✜ effects of excessive growth in the money
supply
✜ importance of supply-side policies
✜ erosion of governments' power by the
process of globalisation