Cellular automata (CA) can be used to study nonlinear endogenous business cycles. This leads to an examination of the classification of business cycles based on Wolfram's four classes of the dynamical behaviour of cellular automata. Following the path set by Zambelli and Goodwin, a study of...

R.G. Goodwin mentioned that "economists will be led, as natural scientists have been led, to seek in nonlinearities an explanation of the maintenance of oscillation" (Goodwin, Econometrica 19(1), 1951); following this reasoning, we studied business cycles as if they were generated by nonlinear...