Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deal with questions of instability and economic crises, deriving theoretical arguments from Marx's and Schumpeter's works and presenting relevant empirical evidence for the case of the US food manufacturing sector. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose: This research paper uses a novel methodological approach to investigate the spillover effects among the key sectors of the US economy. Design/methodology/approach: The paper links the US sectors via a node theoretic scheme based on a general equilibrium framework, whereas it estimates...