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Policy conflicts and trade-offs

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Edexcel Economics B (9EB0) Theme 2, Unit T2-6 (spec ref 2.6.3) — the conflicts and trade-offs between the FOUR macroeconomic objectives (2.6.1): inflation vs unemployment (short-run Phillips-curve intuition), growth vs inflation, growth vs the current account/balance of payments, and growth vs th…

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Lesson outline

  1. Do Now — Retrieval
  2. Why Can't Governments Hit Every Target at Once?
  3. Hinge Check — Is Growth Ever "Free"?
  4. Growth vs Inflation: When Boosting Demand Backfires
  5. Guided Practice — Shift AD (We Do)
  6. Hinge Check — Can You Stimulate Forever?
  7. The Big Four Macroeconomic Conflicts
  8. Inflation vs Unemployment: the Short-Run Trade-Off
  9. Hinge Check — Fighting Inflation
  10. Two More Conflicts: Current Account and Environment
  11. Hinge Check — Growth and the Current Account
  12. Match the Conflict
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