In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten war die Nationalökonomik Zeugin einer sprichwörtlichen "Hochkonjunktur" bei der Entwicklung kausaler Erklärungsansätze mittelfristiger gesamtwirtschaftlicher Fluktuationen. Aufbauend auf der "Theorie realer Konjunkturzyklen" und deren Erweiterung in Modellen...

In this chapter, we outline the reasons why economics has been concerned with non-linear dynamics, with a particular focus on business cycles and on economic growth. Using varying perspectives, we discuss the salient historical mathematical approaches to the problem and the results that were...

In this chapter, we describe growth and cycles in economics as a struggle between capitalists and workers. We first present the Phillips curve (which statistically relates unemployment with the rate of change of nominal wages) and then the Goodwin model. The latter reinterprets, in economical...

This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving relationships between the...