This paper a two-sector Sraffian pricing model with heterogeneous labour in conjunction with a Keynesian quantity system in order to investigate whether changes in relative employments of different types of labour can be systematically linked to changes in their relative costs. The paper employs...

This paper a two-sector Sraffian pricing model with heterogeneous labour in conjunction with a Keynesian quantity system in order to investigate whether changes in relative employments of different types of labour can be systematically linked to changes in their relative costs. The paper employs...

A important part of mainstream economic belief in the ability of price and wage flexibility to eliminate unemployment has been the so-called Keynes effect, viz., downward flexibility in prices and wages reducing interest rates and stimulating effective demand. Yet, the theoretical real wage...

Many model-based investigation techniques, such as sensitivity analysis, optimization, and statistical inference, require a large number of model evaluations to be performed at different input and/or parameter values. This limits the application of these techniques to models that can be...

A important part of mainstream economic belief in the ability of price and wage flexibility to eliminate unemployment has been the so-called Keynes effect, viz., downward flexibility in prices and wages reducing interest rates and stimulating effective demand. Yet, the theoretical real wage...

User dissatisfaction with the performance of internal systems design departments is widespread. It is demonstrated here that viewing such a department as a service operations system, operating within a particular market, throws light upon the causes of dissatisfaction and indicates possible...