Economy in the Long Run
Growth fundamentals — the leisure-work trade-off, the island economy, and why consumption doesn't create long-run growth.
Lecture hub · 8 sessions
Every macro session from Prof. Tantri's course — notes, transcript, and (once approved) the recording — gathered into one hub. Read the write-up or press play.
Session 8 · Medium-Term Economics: Inflation, Labor & the Phillips Curve Foundation
LockedGrowth fundamentals — the leisure-work trade-off, the island economy, and why consumption doesn't create long-run growth.
Short-run demand, consumption functions, and how output adjusts when prices are rigid.
Real vs nominal rates, liquidity preference, and why modern central banks moved from money-supply targeting to the IS-MP world.
Integrating interest-rate policy into the short-run model — and what it means for India's policy space.
GST cuts, the crowding-out debate, the five-step transmission mechanism, and the AI-human-capital question for India.
Tradables vs non-tradables, PPP, Balassa-Samuelson, and why richer countries look expensive to visitors.
The central paradox: how inflation, nominal depreciation, and interest differentials are all telling the same story.
Kevin Warsh on inflation as a policy choice, then the wage- and price-setting equations that underpin the Phillips curve.