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  • 9 - Growth and Cycles

  • Peter Skott, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Book:
    Structuralist and Behavioral Macroeconomics
    Published online:
    10 November 2023
    Print publication:
    21 September 2023, pp 228-255

  • Summary

    The neoclassical aggregate production is ubiquitous in the macroeconomic literature, despite the theoretical weaknesses exposed by the Cambridge capital controversy. This chapter gives an overview of the controversy and subsequent attempts to provide an empirical justification for the aggregate production function. These attempts are unconvincing, and the function is not needed to explain the reconciliation of the natural and warranted growth rates in mature economies. Kaldor's neo-Keynesian models and an older Marxian tradition explained this outcome by endogenizing the distribution of income and assuming that the saving rate is increasing in the profit share. But capitalist economies contain both stabilizing and destabilizing forces. Depending on the balance of these forces, the result may be endogenous cycles, as in Goodwin’s formalization of Marx’s general law of accumulation. This model has weaknesses, but the presence of endogenous cycles is in line with empirical studies which find evidence of local instability.