We model demand-led growth with endogenous adjustment of labor supply and productivity to accommodate the demand-led path, reconciling Harrod's warranted rate of demand growth with supply. The model delivers a range of growth paths and unemployment rates rather than a single “natural rate.”...

Piero Ferri expertly broadens the analysis of the canonical growth cycle approach by presenting a Minsky-Harrod model, examining how the relationship between income distribution, growth and unemployment becomes increasingly complex. Exploring this new technique to generate a process of growth,...

Most empirical macroeconomic research limited to the period since World War II. This paper analyses the effects of changes in income distribution and in private wealth on consumption and investment covering a period from as early as 1855 until 2010 for the UK, France, Germany and USA, based on...

The paper analyzes the relationship between income shares, wealth and growth in an environment where positional goods are taken into account and rent is generated. This hypothesis, which is a macro engine for inequality, creates a gap between profit share and property share and implies a...