The Phillips CurveThe inflation-unemployment relationship, and why it shifted.EconomicsShort run against long run.Short runA trade-off appears to existUnexpected inflation reduces unemploymentReal wages fall without workers noticingPolicy appears able to choose a pointLong runExpectations adjust to actual inflationUnemployment returns to its natural rateOnly inflation is left, permanently higherThe curve is verticalThe 1970s broke the simple version: high inflation and highunemployment together, which the original curve could not produce.The Phillips Curvelearnposters.com
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What’s on the The Phillips Curve poster

8 entries in 2 groups.

Short run against long run.

The 1970s broke the simple version: high inflation and high unemployment together, which the original curve could not produce.

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What’s on the The Phillips Curve poster?
8 entries in 2 groups. Short run against long run. Short run: A trade-off appears to exist, Unexpected inflation reduces unemployment, R…; Long run: Expectations adjust to actual inflation, Unemployment returns to its natura…. The 1970s broke the simple version: high inflation and high unemployment together, which the original curve could not produce.
Who is the The Phillips Curve poster for?
The Phillips Curve belongs to the Economics section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning macroeconomics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the The Phillips Curve poster?
A short-run trade-off exists. In the long run, expectations remove it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so The Phillips Curve belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with The Phillips Curve?
Aggregate Demand & Supply, The Business Cycle and Economic Growth sit alongside The Phillips Curve in the Economics section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Aggregate Demand & SupplyThe Business CycleEconomic Growth
Is the The Phillips Curve poster free to download and print?
Yes. The Phillips Curve downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Economics section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the The Phillips Curve poster print at?
The Phillips Curve is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of The Phillips Curve loses nothing.Printing guide

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