Unless equality is exogenously imposed between the rate of growth of autonomous demand and the warranted rate, a given rate of growth of autonomous demand generates various 'short-period' warranted rates of growth, period by period. In a stable case, these 'short-period' warranted rates converge...

In writing about the "rhetoric of economics" - particularly about the standards which prevent situations where "anything goes" in argument - McCloskey takes an eclectic approach to two philosophical positions, based on Rorty and Habermas respectively. But these positions, despite sharing some...

It is argued that the use of an aggregate accumulation function in the 'Kalecki-Steindl' approach conceals the problem of overdetermination in that approach. Three possible solutions to overdetermination within the framework of that approach are then shown to pose serious problems. A suggestion...

This paper combines two major contributions by Kaldor: the view that the supply of money, ensuing mainly from bank credit, is endogenous, and the framework which assigns a crucial role to the saving and investment behaviour of corporations in determining the general rate of profit (the...

In a paper published in this journal, Giuseppe Ciccarone (2004) attempts to show that the Pasinetti theorem allows for the profit-making financial sector. In this effort, however, he ends up unwittingly associating the theorem with the Wicksellian monetary theory. The present note traces the...