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MENTAL MODEL · M1853

Soft Landing

Soft Landing
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Through policies (such as interest rate hikes), the overheated economy is smoothly brought back to a moderate growth range without triggering a recession (hard landing). This is regarded as the highest art of macroeconomic regulation and is extremely difficult to achieve.

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- The art of braking: When a company needs to slow down and adjust during rapid growth, how can it achieve transformation without layoffs or collapse? This is the "soft landing" technique that managers must master.

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In economics, it refers to slowing growth while avoiding a recession; in aerospace, it refers to the deceleration and safe landing of a vehicle. The mechanism (in economics) is a gradual tightening of policy, bringing down inflation while keeping employment and growth broadly stable.

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