Then the growth section changes the question entirely: not stabilizing the pie, enlarging it. The tool below drills both horizons from your notes.
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The Phillips curve is the AD AS model wearing different axes
A demand boom moves the economy along the short run Phillips curve, lower unemployment, higher inflation, while an adverse supply shock shifts the whole curve outward, worsening both at once. Map every scenario back to AD AS first: along the curve for demand, curve shifts for supply, and stagflation stops being mysterious.
The long run curve stands vertical, and expectations are why
Hold unemployment below the natural rate with stimulus and workers come to expect the inflation, writing it into wages, which shifts the short run curve up until unemployment returns home at higher inflation. The long run Phillips curve is vertical at the natural rate: policy chooses the inflation rate, not the unemployment rate, once expectations adjust. Exam answers that name expectations earn the mechanism point.
The quantity theory turns money growth into arithmetic
M V equals P Y: with velocity stable and output set by real factors, sustained money growth lands in the price level. The quantity theory is the unit's long run anchor for money: central banks pick nominal variables in the long run, and inflation is the monetary phenomenon the equation makes visible. Short run traction, long run neutrality is the sentence to keep.
Deficits meet loanable funds: crowding out
Government borrowing adds demand in the loanable funds market, raising the real interest rate, and private investment that no longer clears the higher rate does not happen: crowding out. The graded chain runs deficit, demand for funds, interest rate, investment, future capital stock, and drawing it on the loanable funds graph is the standard free response.
Growth changes the question from stabilizing to enlarging
Stabilization manages fluctuations around potential output; growth moves potential itself, and productivity does the moving: physical capital per worker, human capital, technology. Policies that raise saving, education or research shift long run aggregate supply rightward. Distinguish the two questions explicitly and the essay organises itself.
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Your Phillips diagrams and policy chains. Related: Unit 4, photo to quiz and pricing.
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| Shock or policy | Short run result | Long run result |
|---|---|---|
| Demand stimulus | Along SRPC, less unemployment | Back to natural rate, more inflation |
| Adverse supply shock | SRPC shifts out, stagflation | Depends on expectations |
| Sustained money growth | Some real traction | Inflation by quantity theory |
| Persistent deficits | Demand supported | Crowding out, less capital |
| Productivity gains | Little visible | Potential output rises |
| Credible disinflation | Painful along SRPC | Lower expected inflation |
What does AP Macroeconomics Unit 5 cover?
The long run consequences of stabilization: Phillips curves, money growth and inflation, deficits and crowding out, and the sources of economic growth.
Why is the long run Phillips curve vertical?
Expectations adjust: workers write anticipated inflation into wages, shifting the short run curve until unemployment returns to the natural rate.
What does the quantity theory predict?
With velocity stable and output real, sustained money growth raises the price level roughly one for one: inflation as a monetary phenomenon.
How does crowding out work?
Deficits raise demand in the loanable funds market, the real interest rate rises, and marginal private investment is squeezed out.
What actually grows an economy long run?
Productivity: capital per worker, human capital and technology, which shift potential output rather than managing fluctuations around it.
Can I build questions from my own Unit 5 notes?
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Last updated: 2026-08-15