Edexcel A Level · 9EC0 · Theme 2: The UK economy: performance and policies

2.6.4 Conflicts and Trade-offs

Also Edexcel AS 8EC0

Everything you need for questions on conflicts and trade-offs, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.

What's on this sheet

  1. Conflicts between objectives
  2. The short-run Phillips curve
  3. Conflicts between policies
  4. A classic chain
  5. Classic question: can a government achieve all its objectives at once?
  6. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  7. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. Unemployment or inflation?
  2. Conflict or complement?
  3. Choose, and live with the trade-off
  4. Putting numbers on trade-offs
  5. Can the trade-offs be escaped?
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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