This paper analyzes the interaction between financial and real variables in different time frames and monetary regimes. Firms finance investment through retained earnings, new issues, or bank loans, and households' desired portfolio of financial assets is related to current income flows. The...

A dual economy model is used to analyze the preconditions for successful industrialization under different trading and investment regimes. Assuming increasing returns to scale in industry and decreasing returns in agriculture, it is shown that protectionism may aid economic development at some...

A growing literature suggests that 'financialisation' may weaken the performance of non-financial corporations and constrain the growth of aggregate demand. This paper uses two alternative approaches--one derived from Skott and one from Lavoie and Godley--and two different settings--a...

Nicholas Kaldor's Mattioli Lectures analyze a two-sector model with increasing returns to scale (IRS) in industry and diminishing returns in agriculture (DR). This review article shows that (1) with IRS in industry, a long-run equilibrium growth path with strictly positive growth rates may exist...