Cycles, growth and structural change : theories and empirical evidence /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Description:xxiv, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge Siena studies in political economy
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4500523
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Other authors / contributors:Punzo, Lionello F.
ISBN:0415251370
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Facts and Interpretations of Growth and Fluctuations
  • 1. Economic cycles since 1870
  • 2. Growth and fluctuations: the post-war Japanese experience
  • 3. Productivity-investment fluctuations and structural change
  • Part II. The Macroeconomy and its Dynamics
  • 4. Qualitative dynamics and macroeconomic evolution in the very long run
  • 5. Out-of-equilibrium dynamics
  • 6. Disequilibrium growth in monetary economies: basic components and the KMG working model
  • 7. Schumpeterian dynamics: a disequilibrium theory of long run profits
  • Part III. Dynamics by Interaction
  • 8. Equilibrium distribution of agents by types in a market, and existence of power laws
  • 9. The instability of markets
  • 10. Financial fragility and fluctuating growth
  • 11. Toward the microeconomics of innovation: growth engine of market economies
  • Part IV. Challenges for Quantitative Methodologies
  • 12. Business cycle research: methods and problems
  • 13. Complexity-based methods in cycles and growth: any potential value-added?
  • 14. Information, complexity and the MDL principle
  • 15. The 'exogenous' in 'endogenous' growth theory