Fiscal policy takes two distinct forms: that which requires legislation to enact, and that which kicks in automatically when there is a change in the level of income in a country.

This lesson distinguishes between discretionary fiscal policy and automatic stabilizers in fiscal policy, and examines the mitigating effect of automatic fiscal policy in an AD/AS diagram

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