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U.K. Aggregate Supply Curve

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  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-hour-pennworldtable?time=2007..2017&country=~GBR Other Causes of Change Globalization: over the last decade in particular, the U.K. has become a lot more global. They've begun trading with a lot more foreign countries, as well as communicating with new countries. This means that they have been producing less of their own goods, which is mentioned below. This also means that they will be spending less money on their own industry, meaning that money will be spend instead on trading and foreign products.   Deindustrialization: over the last decade, the U.K has produced a lot less of their own goods and services. This is mainly due to the 2008 financial crisis. In this crisis, individual companies in the U.K. lost a lot of money, meaning they had to be given money by the government in order to stay afloat. This is why they've begun trading with a lot more countries since that financial crisis as well. Since they ...

United Kingdom GDP

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   Real GDP for the last 10 years https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CLVMNACSCAB1GQUK Real GDP per capita for the last 10 years https://knoema.com/atlas/United-Kingdom/GDP-per-capita Real GDP growth per year for the last 10 years https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/gdp-growth-rate#:~:text=U.K.%20gdp%20growth%20rate%20for,a%200.44%25%20decline%20from%202015. Hidden economy percentage Approximately 10% Unemployment rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/unemployment-rate Inflation rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/inflation-rate-cpi#:~:text=U.K.%20inflation%20rate%20for%202019,a%200.64%25%20increase%20from%202015. Current account balance https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BN.CAB.XOKA.CD?end=2019&locations=GB&start=2009 Observations The GDP seems to increase steadily and then have a sharp decline, whereas the GDP per capita and GDP growth per year seemed to be a lot more spikey. There would be sharp...