The determinant of nonfarm nonfinancial corporation orders of nondefense capital goods (as generated by the Census Bureau) is modelled during the period of 1992 to 2010. Statistically significant relationship between investment orders and the cyclical variations in output, the interest rate...

In Michal Kalecki's work, aggregate profits are shown to be the sum of gross investment, the government budget deficit, the export surplus, and the difference between capitalist consumption and worker savings. In his 1979 paper, Weintraub suggested that the consumption coefficient, the ratio of...

Laramie A. J. and Mair D. (2005) Regional tax differentials: a Kaleckian approach, Regional Studies 39 , 345-355. The paper presents a Kaleckian approach to the analysis of the incidence and macroeconomic effects of national and local taxes. The micro- and macro-economic foundations of the model...

We analyse the effects of balanced budget changes in the tax rates on wages and profits on the trend component of fixed investment, on the trend rate of growth of capital stock and on the trend rates of capacity utilization. A modified version of Kalecki's growth model is used to analyse the...

Kalecki's 1943 essay Political Aspects of Full Employment (PAFE) is widely recognised as a seminal essay in the theory of the political business cycle. The paper argues that PAFE may also be interpreted as an early recognition by Kalecki of the phenomenon of rent seeking. Kalecki's discussion of...

Original articles by leading scholars of post Keynesian economics make up this authoritative collection. Current topics of the greatest interest are covered, such as: perspectives on current economic policy; post Keynesian approaches to monetary theory and policy; economic development, growth...

Money, Distribution and Economic Policy takes issue with the inappropriate treatment of money, effective demand and distribution issues in modern mainstream macroeconomics. It presents contributions which are critical of modern orthodoxy and which explore alternative approaches to macroeconomics...