The notion of dynamic instability of demand driven growth put forward by Harrod (1939) has triggered several responses in the history of economic thought. The modern Kaleckian solution, including Bhaduri/Marglin (1990) among several others, considers the rate of capacity utilisation to be...

Aggregate demand is important, both in the short and the long run, but a basic distinction must be made between dual and mature economies. Mature economies may su¤er from a structural aggregate problem ("secu- lar stagnation"): full-employment growth may be impossible in the absence of...

"Post-Keynesian Growth Theory is the second volume of Marc Lavoie's Selected Essays, and is a collection of 18 articles published between 1995 and 2020, on themes touching growth and distribution. The book contains an extended foreword by Eckhard Hein, and an introduction by Lavoie that recalls...

As mentioned in the Introduction, Sect. 1.2, the objective of this book is twofold: to provide a personal specification of a business cycle model within the Kaldor-Kalecki framework (see Chap. 16) and to choose a chaotic specification of the Harrod model (Sportelli and Celi (Metroeconomica...