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This paper presents a methodological discussion of two recent “endogeneity” critiques of the Kaleckian model and the concept of distribution-led growth. From a neo-Keynesian perspective, and following Kaldor (1955) and Robinson (1956), the model is criticized because it treats distribution...
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outcomes. But how well are these claims scientifically grounded or supported by economic theory, evidence, and applied modeling …
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Institutions like the IMF, the ECB and many finance ministries and private banks in the world's richest countries are …
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theory appears not to be a cumulative science so far. When attempts are done to settle controversies by "nature" (testing the … or non-identified when testing them. Two examples are provided, one in growth theory and testing convergence, one in … business cycles theory and testing inflation persistence. …
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The average of periodic growth rates is a downwardly biased estimator of the rate of growth of a country. The higher the variance of the periodical growth rates, the higher the downward bias. The longer the business cycle, the higher the downward bias. In this short paper, we demonstrate these...
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This paper answers the puzzling questions that why under the similar set of economic conditions service sector in India grew while manufacturing could not and how economic reforms in 1990s accelerated the productivity growth. The paper provides a very innovative and convincing explanation. Two...
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While mainstream economics assumes that firms are always on the production frontier, there is an evolutionary interpretation of competition according to which firms have different degrees of what Leibenstein (1964) called quot;X-efficiency,quot; and competition selects for higher X-efficiency....
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Key economic concepts of saving and investment are defined and discussed in this paper. It is shown that the equation “saving=investment” is a fundamental fallacy of macroeconomics due to a confusion between real and financial variables, and also between stock and flow variables. Economic...
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There has recently been a resurgence of interest in how institutions affect economic performance. A review of this literature reveals that the concept of an 'institution' means different things to different scholars, both within economics and across the social sciences. This paper discusses what...
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