This Year 12 Recap video covers the basics around the topic of supply side policies.
Supply side policies are policies designed to try and help increase the productive capacity of the economy over time. This can be achieved via policy initiatives aimed at improving the quality and/or quality of an economy's factors of production over time. These policies can be instigated by the government's spending plans as an indirect effect of fiscal policy or via the drive of the free market to capture higher profits. This is a prominent discussion point within exams as the UK has experienced a 'lost decade' of productivity since the financial crisis. The discussion around supply side policies and the effectiveness of them can provide an extremely useful talking point when looking at the productivity of an economy over time.