Sraffian supermultiplier models (SSM) try to identify autonomous components of demand. The most plausible candidate is government consumption. Descriptively, however, government consumption does not grow at a constant rate, and prescriptively there is no justification for keeping constant the...

1: Introduction -- 2: Intuitions about Welfare – Under the Constraint of Computability -- 3: Sraffa, Keynes and a New Paradigm -- 4: On the Meaning Maximization Doctrine: An Alternative to the Utilitarian Doctrine -- 5: A Generalization of Sraffa’s Notion of “Viability” in a ‘Land...

"Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those critical 150 years when the economic gap between the industrial core and the primary-product-producing periphery widened to such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to...