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Economics- Edexcel 2.6.3

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Supply-side policies   policies that improve the productive potential of an economy, illustrated by an outward shift of LRAS  
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2 types of supply-side reforms   market-led policies and state/government intervention  
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Market-led policies   designed to make markets work better and give the private sector more freedom  
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State / government intervention   intervention in markets to overcome market failures  
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What do supply-side reforms affect?   short and long run AS, but usually focused on LRAS  
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Time frame on supply-side reforms   can be short or long  
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Main aims of supply-side policies look to improve/increase   incentives to look for work/labour & capital productivity/occupational and geographical mobility of labour/investment/competition/sustained non-inflationary growth/new businesses/living standards & regional economic balance  
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What happens if supply-side policies work?   sustained improvement in trade-off between inflation & unemployment/flexible to external demand & supply-side shocks/better living standards/less unemployment/high competitiveness  
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Interventionist supply-side policies   involve government intervention to overcome market failure  
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Examples of interventionist supply-side policies   state investment in public sector/minimum or living wage/higher taxes on wealthy/active regional policy/selective import controls/management of exchange rate/nationalisation  
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Active regional policy   the government's policy to boost economic activity in a specific region of the country or trading area such as the EU  
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How can human capital be improved?   sustained gains in average educational attainment, more and better quality training, higher real incomes allowing people to consume more knowledge, inflow of migrants  
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R&D   research and development  
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Biggest barriers to innovation   risk aversion, uncertainty about firms’ ability to exploit research profitably, lack of high-skilled workers in key research industries  
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Product innovation   small-scale, frequent subtle changes to the characteristics and performance of a good or service  
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Process innovation   changes to the way in which production takes place or is organised  
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Creative destruction as a term was created by who?   Joseph Schumpter  
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Creative destruction meaning   complete upheaval of the established order in the pursuit of innovation  
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FDI   foreign direct investment  
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Policies to attract FDI   attractive rates of corporation tax,soft loans & tax reliefs, trade & investment agreements, flexible labour markets, high quality critical infrastructure, open capital markets to allow remitted profits, lower unit labour costs  
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market-based supply-side policies   cut gov spending, lower taxes, reduce red tape, improve flexibility, competition policies, privatisation, opening the economy  
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Possible drawbacks of market-led supply-side policies   low taxes don’t improve work incentives, increases in incomes and wealth inequality, instability when deregulating markets, employment and income insecurity  
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Major supply-side weaknesses of UK economy   low R&D spending, low capital investment spending, skill shortages, high economic inactivity in labour market, low labour mobility, ageing infrastructure, regional economic imbalances, productivity gap  
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Strengths of the supply-side in the UK economy   emerging industries like renewable energy, life sciences, creative sector, financial technology, higher education, nanotechnology  
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Aggregate supply   total planned output of goods and services at a given time and price level  
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Competition policy   any policy which seeks to promote competition and efficiency in markets and industries  
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demographic change   any change in the population  
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deregulation   reducing barriers to entry to make the supply-side of an industry more competitive  
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Free-market policies   policies to increase competition  
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Full capacity output   level of GDP where all available factor inputs are fully employed  
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hysteresis   when a sustained period of very low AD can cause permanent damage to the supply side  
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incentives   used to make goods and services markets work more efficiently and therefore creating greater productive capacity  
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Income tax cuts   lowering direct taxes to improve work incentives and productivity  
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infrastructure   investment in telecoms, rail, ports, roads, energy and other utilities  
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Interventionist policies   involve interventions to overcome market failure that might limit supply-side potential  
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Labour market flexibility   market for people with many short-term job contracts and unpredictable earnings  
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Labour productivity   measures efficiency  
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Pro-market supply-side policies   policies focus on reducing the size of the state and extending the role of market forces in allocating scarce resources  
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privatisation   involves selling state-owned assets to the private sector  
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shocks   unexpected events that can affect both AD and AS  
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Trade liberalisation   lowering import tariffs and eliminating quotas to increase competition  
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Zero-hours contract   workers employed without any guarantee about the amount of work they will have  
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