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The slope of the simplest possible Phillips curve, when accounting for adaptive expectations, was -0.54: each percentage point decline in unemployment below the estimated natural rate translated into a 0.54 percentage point increase in inflation the following year.

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Before I talk about that, I've written down at the bottom there the slope of this curve, this straight line.

It says that, if it were linear, the steepest slope, then doubling the size you would require double the amount of energy.

The slope of that is less than linear.

And if we can teach listening in our schools, we can take our listening off that slippery slope to that dangerous, scary world that I talked about, and move it to a place where everybody is consciously listening all the time, or at least capable of doing it.

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