In: Economics
Explain the Phillips Curve and potential differences between the short-run version and the long-run version. How were the economic performance and policies of the country affected by the Phillips Curve in the 1970s, and what eventually happened to break this pattern?
Philips Curve explains the relationship between commodity price inflation and rate of unemployment.
Long Run Philips Curve doesn't imply a trade off between inflation and unemployment as the Short Run Philips Curve.
Initially , Policy makers believed that as per the Philips Curve relationship, a high inflation will be accompanied by low unemployment and vice- versa, But in the seventies, this relationship established by Philips Curve broke down because of the sudden supply shocks. High unemployment was accompanied by high inflation because of increase in the input prices (oil).


