{"id":240,"date":"2012-02-23T19:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/?p=240"},"modified":"2015-08-19T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T09:19:58","slug":"proof-of-the-phillips-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"The continuing relevance of the Phillips curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillips curve is an indication of the relationship between unemployment and inflation. The curve is named after AWH Phillips, who discovered the existence of this relationship when looking at UK data between the years 1861 and 1957. The curve shows that as unemployment rises, the rate of inflation can be observed to be lower, and vice versa. The relationship was similar for other developed countries.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phillipscurve.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"296\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/?attachment_id=296\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phillipscurve.png\" data-orig-size=\"648,448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Phillips Curve\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phillipscurve.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296\" title=\"Phillips Curve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phillipscurve.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phillipscurve.png 648w, http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phillipscurve-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the discovery of this relationship, governments attempted to use this as a policy tool. However, as shown in the UK in the late 1960s, any attempts to exploit the Philips curve relationship will cause the curve itself to shift, due to changes in expectations in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillips relationship still appears to exist, however.\u00a0 The Bank of England recently reported that inflation was lower than expected; the day after, newspapers were reporting that unemployment was reaching record levels.<\/p>\n<p>Further details on the Philips curve can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econlib.org\/library\/Enc\/PhillipsCurve.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillips curve is an indication of the relationship between unemployment and inflation. The curve is named after AWH Phillips, who discovered the existence of this relationship when looking at UK data between the years 1861 and 1957. The curve shows that as unemployment rises, the rate of inflation can be observed to be lower, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/?p=240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The continuing relevance of the Phillips curve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,18,16],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-inflation","tag-theory","tag-unemployment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28ZxV-3S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economic-truth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}