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Some Properties of R. G. D. Allen's Treatment of Kalecki's 1935 Model of Business Cycles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

John V. Baxley
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Wake Forest University
John C. Moorhouse
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Extract

More than sixty-five years have passed since Michal Kalecki (1935) published one of the first formal mathematical models of business cycles. His paper presents a closed-form analytic solution. This characteristic, among others, sets Kalecki's work apart from that of contemporary literary business cycle theorists such as Friedrich A. Hayek (1935) and John Maynard Keynes (1936).

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Research Article
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2002

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