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  • Modeling Economic Instability: an History of early Macroeoonomics
    • Chapter 1 – Introduction
    • Chapter 2 – Looking for Dynamic Economics: Tinbergen’s Early Breakthrough
    • Chapter 3 – Relaxation Oscillations in the Early Development of Econometrics: a Road Not Taken
    • Chapter 4 – Frisch’s Macro-Dynamics: Inner Stability and External Impulses
    • Chapter 5 – Kalecki’s Macro-Dynamics: “Automatic Cycles,” Stagnation and Class Struggle
    • Chapter 6 – Tinbergen’s Macro-Dynamics: Instability and the Possibility of Collapse
    • Chapter 7 – Business Cycles, Pump-Priming and the Role of Public Expenditures
    • Chapter 8 – Stability Analysis and Early Keynesian Systems
    • Chapter 9 – Full Employment and Instability: Disentangling Issues on Existence and Stability
  • Grappling with Instability: a history of early post WW2 period
  • Reviews of the Book

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A winding path : Goodwin’s early perspective on modeling capitalism

February 1, 2025 Angelo Vieira and Michaël Assous

Caspar David Friedrich, Two Men Contemplating the Moon            I recently returned from Siena, where I had…

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How it all began: Ragnar Frisch and the founding of the Econometric Society (3/3)

July 4, 2024 Michaël Assous and Siméon ZEBINA

Ragnar Frisch got pointers from François Divisia and Joseph Schumpeter on how to connect with American economists Irving Fisher and…

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How it all began: Ragnar Frisch and the founding of the Econometric Society (2/3)

June 28, 2024 Michaël Assous and Siméon ZEBINA

    This post is the second of a three-parts serie on the founding of the econometric society. All comments…

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How it all began: Ragnar Frisch and the founding of the Econometric Society (1/3)

June 27, 2024 Michaël Assous and Siméon ZEBINA

  Economics is quantitative and mathematical. Nobody can question that. We might regret it, but it’s a fact that 95%…

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Cosmogonies in Economics : Leijonhuvfud’s take on “Corridor stability”

June 11, 2024 Michaël Assous and Siméon ZEBINA

  This post is based on an research paper available here. All comments are welcomed. In his 1973 “Effective Demand…

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Questioning Samuelson’s dogma: Schelling on growth and cycles

July 15, 2022 Michaël Assous, Elie Malhaire and Vincent Carret

In the context of the 1937 recession, Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) provided a dynamic framework (1939) for studying the effects of…

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Posted in: Part III, Uncategorized Filed under: cycle, Domar, Samuelson, Schelling
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