In Michal Kalecki's work, aggregate profits are shown to be the sum of gross investment, the government budget deficit, the export surplus, and the difference between capitalist consumption and worker savings. In his 1979 paper, Weintraub suggested that the consumption coefficient, the ratio of...

We analyse the effects of balanced budget changes in the tax rates on wages and profits on the trend component of fixed investment, on the trend rate of growth of capital stock and on the trend rates of capacity utilization. A modified version of Kalecki's growth model is used to analyse the...