I. Extensions of the Predator-Prey-Model of a Growth Cycle -- Implications of Workers’ Savings for Economic Growth and the Class Struggle -- Alternative Monetary Policies in a Classical Growth Cycle -- Unemployment Insurance and Cyclical Growth -- A Generalization of R.Goodwin’s Model with...

This book includes the results of an International Workshop held at the Department of Political Economy of the University of Siena in December 1986. It focuses on the presentation, discussion, and comparison of two most interesting theories proposed for the explanation of long waves, namely the...