The Long Wave in the World EconomyEnthusiastically received by reviewers - `It is an intellectual tour de force ... this is the most substantial synthesis of long wave theory to be published since the revival of interest in the whole topic.' - Professor Christopher Freeman |
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... downswing ' may mean just that . This should make us the more concerned to identify cycles in economic growth and their causes . The longer the cycle , the more concerned we should be , for the more prolonged the misery in the ...
... downswing ' may mean just that . This should make us the more concerned to identify cycles in economic growth and their causes . The longer the cycle , the more concerned we should be , for the more prolonged the misery in the ...
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... downswing . If there is such a regular cycle in the world economy , we can expect the downswing to continue until about the end of this decade ; whereupon a new long boom will begin . But does such a long wave really exist ? We need an ...
... downswing . If there is such a regular cycle in the world economy , we can expect the downswing to continue until about the end of this decade ; whereupon a new long boom will begin . But does such a long wave really exist ? We need an ...
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... downswing . Chapter 10 deals with the period 1896-1945 , in which political and economic developments are most obviously intertwined , and Chapter 11 covers the post - war period up to the end of the 1980s . Chapter 12 , in conclusion ...
... downswing . Chapter 10 deals with the period 1896-1945 , in which political and economic developments are most obviously intertwined , and Chapter 11 covers the post - war period up to the end of the 1980s . Chapter 12 , in conclusion ...
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... downswing sets forces in motion which lead to the next upswing , and vice versa . The Kitchin ' inventory ' cycle is ( or was ) one such : Kitchin , writing in 1923 , found a pattern of fluctuations of growth rates of three to four ...
... downswing sets forces in motion which lead to the next upswing , and vice versa . The Kitchin ' inventory ' cycle is ( or was ) one such : Kitchin , writing in 1923 , found a pattern of fluctuations of growth rates of three to four ...
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... downswing in the 1930s and early 1940s and again since the mid - 1970s , an upswing in between ( Figure 1.2 ) . Prices , on the other hand , after falling as predicted until 1933 , have since then been ' misbehaving ' more and more ...
... downswing in the 1930s and early 1940s and again since the mid - 1970s , an upswing in between ( Figure 1.2 ) . Prices , on the other hand , after falling as predicted until 1933 , have since then been ' misbehaving ' more and more ...
Contents
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Technological styles | 36 |
Monetary feedback | 84 |
Population feedback | 101 |
Inequality feedback 1 In the North | 122 |
Inequality feedback 2 International and in the South | 147 |
A résumé of the theoretical argument | 183 |
A historical account 18501896 | 207 |
A historical account 18961945 | 221 |
A historical account from 1945 to the present | 248 |
The way to the next upswing | 272 |
Notes | 295 |
Bibliography | 320 |
Index | 329 |
A historical account 17801850 | 189 |
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