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Phillips curves

Phillips curves is the plural of Phillips curve.

Meaning of Phillips curve

Noun

Phillips curve (plural Phillips curves)

  1. A single-equation empirical model describing a historical inverse relationship between rates of unemployment and corresponding rates of inflation that result within an economy.
    • An explanation of stagflation is not an explanation at all unless it includes a general explanation of why a Phillips curve should have this or that slope, and why the curve shifts if it is alleged to shift.1982, Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 192

Questions about Phillips curves

What is Phillips curves the plural of?
Phillips curves is the plural of Phillips curve.

Words near Phillips curves in the dictionary

  1. Phillippis
  2. Phillips
  3. Phillips Code
  4. Phillips County
  5. Phillips curve
  6. Phillips curves
  7. Phillips head
  8. Phillips heads
  9. Phillips River poison
  10. Phillips screw
  11. Phillips screwdriver

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