This paper aims to show that the Sraffian supermultiplier model provides an alternative closure for the heterodox analysis of economic growth. The new closure follows from the assumption of the existence of autonomous non-capacity-creating expenditures, which implies that the ratio of the...

This paper presents an estimation of investment flows for Brazil between 2000 and 2009 at the sectoral level through Capital Flow Tables (CFTs). CFTs were estimated for the economy as a whole and according the origin of products (domestic or imported). We use data from MDIC, IBGE, BNDES,...

The paper addresses the features of stock-flow consistent (SFC) canonical versions of neo-Kaleckian (NK) and Supermultiplier (SM) models that introduce either the accumulation of debt of households or firms. The aim of this comparison is twofold: (i) to analyze the implications of a debt...