Business Cycles: Theories, Evidence and Analysis

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Theories of the Trade Cycle....Pages 3-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Business Cycles, Manias and Panics in Industrial Societies....Pages 41-55
Cuspoidal Nets....Pages 56-63
A Constructive Approach to Economic Fluctuations....Pages 64-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Hours and Employment Variation in Business-Cycle Theory....Pages 107-134
Cycles and Non-Stationary Equilibrium Search....Pages 135-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Rationality and Cycles in the Multiplier- Accelerator Model....Pages 157-182
Strange Attractors and Endogenous Business Cycle Theory....Pages 183-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Money and Business Cycles in Britain, 1870–1913....Pages 207-228
The Comparative Performance of Fixed and Flexible Exchange-Rate Regimes....Pages 229-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Long Cycles....Pages 279-301
A War-Economy Theory of the Long Wave....Pages 303-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Permanent and Transitory Components in Macroeconomics....Pages 331-367
Politics Matter After All....Pages 369-405
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Panel Discussion A Will the Business Cycle Ever Be Obsolete in Industrial Societies? I....Pages 409-423
Non-Linear Dynamics and Economic Evolution....Pages 424-441
Back Matter....Pages 443-449